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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ October 14

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

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

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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Oops of the Day

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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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ October 9

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The hated Samaritan ethnic group was long ago extinct.

II Kings 17:24-41 – Luke 10:25-37 – John 4:1-42

Fact of the Day 

No! After the Assyrians took the Jews captive to their land (today’s Iraq), they filled the empty Jewish cities with their own people and were called Samaritans.  The Jews hated them and wouldn’t even walk through their province in the middle of the country to get from a souther province to a northern province.  They became a mixed breed.  Some Samaritans still exist today in the same area of Palestine.  DNA shows them to be part Jewish and part Iraqi.  Look on the internet for articles and pictures about them.  It is very interesting.

(Some biblical things require external evidence.  This is one.  Check it out here:  https://bit.ly/3WtOgbA )

Also, you may be interested in our biblical historical novel LAZARUS: THE SAMARITAN in our “Intrepid Men of God” series here:  https://bit.ly/3KEIwJH

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ October 7

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Oops of the Day

God was not faithful to the Northern half of Israel when he let them be conquered and taken as captives to Assyria (today’s Iraq) so the Assyrians could live in N. Israel instead.

Leviticus 18:25-28  –  II Kings 17:7-18

Fact of the Day 

No!  God had warned the Jews 1000 years earlier when he told them to destroy the Amorites (Canaanites) so they could take over their land.  He said that, IF the Jews ever got as bad as the Canaanites, the land would vomit them out of it too.

The Israelites didn’t believe God’s warning  because they did not want to stop their immorality by calling it religion.  So, they…

(1)  built temples to and worshiped pornographic goddesses

(2)  stopped believing in the one true God

(3)  worshiped calves and the stars

(4)  burned their children to death as sacrifices to power gods.

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ October 6

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Oops of the Day

God was mean to not protect the southern half of Israel now called the kingdom of Judah from the Babylonian army when they burned down Jerusalem and enslaved the people.

Leviticus 18:25-28 – all of II Chronicles – all listed prophets – Hebrews 11:35b-38

Fact of the Day 

No! Their kings led the people to commit terrible, terrible sins.

  • -Solomon built altars to the CHILD-SACRIFICING god, Moloch, to please one of his wives, and altars to other gods to please his other wives. That was the beginning.
  • -Out of the 20 kings that followed, 13 kings led the people to worship fake deities, mostly PORNOGRAPHIC GODDESSES with their temple prostitutes and Ashera poles,  and CHILD-KILLING GODS who burned them to death.   God sent these men to warn them: Shaiah, Hanani, Ohadiah, Joel, Isaiah, Micah, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel.  These 10 men spent their lives warning them and trying to save them from hell,  but they did not want to give up their LEGALIZED PROSTITUTION and  PEDICIDE.
  • -Hebrews 11 tells how they treated anyone who tried to stop them:  “There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better Resurrection. 36 Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 37 They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— 38 the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground.”

At one time, Jerusalem was the most evil city in the world.

God was patient for hundreds of years – generation after generation.  Nothing would stop them.  So he punished them to wake them up. Why?  Because they were his lost children, descendants of Abraham and David, headed for hell, and he wanted them back.  Such unbelievable love! 

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NEWS & OOPS OF THE DAY ~ October 4

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Oops of the Day

Absalom was a rebellious son who defied his father, David, even though David did nothing but show love and kindness to his son his whole life.

II Samuel 13:14 & 21 & 23  –  II Samuel 14:13 & 28-32  –  II Samuel 15:7 

Fact of the Day 

No! Absalom’s half-brother raped his sister, Tamar (which, according to the Law of Moses was punishable by death)  but their father did not punish his rapist son. So, 2 yrs later, Absalom had his rapist half-brother killed.  For that David banished him.  Absalom stayed with his maternal grandparents and begged to return home.  Finally, after 3 years, David allowed Absalom to return to Jerusalem.  But he refused to see Absalom.  Finally, after 2 more years, he did allow Absalom to see him.  For the following 4 years, it seems David was drifting from his judging duties, so Absalom covered for him by judging in his father’s name.   After another 4 years of this, Absalom finally gave up on his father.    This totals 11 long, unhappy father-son years.

David was a complicated man.  Sometimes it is easier to love someone at a distance.  During the whole process, David lost a daughter and two sons.

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ October 3

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Oops of the Day

Poor crippled Mephibosheth, orphaned son of Crown Prince, Jonathan, grew up in desolate LoDebar, with no pastureland or communication with the outside world.  

II Samuel 9:4 

Fact of the Day 

No!  LoDebar was just off the King’s Highway which met a major trade route between China and Europe.  It was also just 10 miles from the Sea of Galilee.

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ September 25

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Oops of the Day

Jonathan’s son, Mephibosheth’s, feet were crippled.  So he had to use crutches to help him walk. 

II Samuel 4:4  –  II Samuel 19:24

Fact of the Day 

No!   He wasn’t just a cripple. His feet were paralyzed. How do we know?  When King David was running from Absalom, Mephibosheth did not “care for his feet”.  The only reason he would have to take special care of his feet is that, if they were paralyzed, he would not be able to feel whether he had accidentally hit something and cut them, etc.  And, being paralyzed, he would not have been able to use normal crutches because his feet would not have been able to detect when they touched the floor.  However, he could have used 3-footed stand-alone crutches and swung his feet between them.

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