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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ October 15

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

Oops of the Day

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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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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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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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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You Make Strong Whatever I Attempt

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When I think of the days you materialized and walked on earth with Adam and Eve, and returned as Mary’s Son, I lift0-THEY MET JESUS-Medium-front cover up my soul to you. When I think of the angels announcing your appearance, I offer my heart to you.  When I think of your miracles and words of wisdom you proclaimed, I sing my song to you. When I think of the sorrow you bore and the cross of your suffering for me, I offer to lay down my life for you if your enemy ever demands it. My spirit communes with your Spirit. You love me so.  Though I may feel unloved by others sometimes, I feel your love always. The God of Love breaks through barriers and is victorious.

How amazing your Plan, God, to give mankind free will, let us fall, then forgive and lift us back up. Satan did not understand forgiveness. It was a mystery to him. Even your angels did not understand forgiveness. You can forgive anything and anyone. Your mercy tempers your justice. Forgiving tempers accusing. How angry Satan became after your Word died like he wanted, then came back to life. Your Word paid the ransom for our souls and Satan had no choice but to set us free.  How amazed the angels were after your holy Plan was carried out. How overcome I am that you forgive me over and over for the same sins.  I do try to resist Satan, Lord, and that is all you want. Still, I am awed. This is what makes you so great. You are the God of second chances. You are the God of extreme love. I worship you.

Help me not spend so much time studying your Word that I neglect relationships. Learning is just the beginning. Applying is what you want. Forgive me when I neglect people.

Thank you for the opportunity to wait. I make plans and they do not always come about as I desired. So, I wait, and as I do, I think a little deeper, I let go, I rest. Thank you for making my dreams of spreading your words of saving grace far greater than I could imagine. You stretch out your hand to make my puny efforts take hold and grow. I struggle, I am weak, but you make strong whatever I attempt in your own way. You are my strength.

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0-THEY MET JESUS-Thumbnail-front coverTHEY MET JESUS, all eight books in one. Come meet the people who met Jesus.  You are one of them  Probably you are several of them. Go ahead and struggle with him as they did.  Laugh. Cry.  Do mental battle with him.  Emotional battle too.  Fight for your faith as they fought.  Pause to listen for what you’ve never heard before.  Then touch Jesus.  This is the story of faith in the impossible.   Hope in the inconceivable.  Love for the invincible.  It is the dreams of youth, the desperations of infirmity, the hopes of age, and the song of eternity. To BUY NOW, click a book cover or paste this: https://bit.ly/TheyMetJesusAll         

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Yet another assignment ’til it’s time to go on home

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0-Stephen-Cover-Kindle-MediumThe scripture for today, July 10 (7/10), is Psalm 7:10 as found in the Old Testament of the Bible:

“My shield is God Most High, who saves the upright in heart.”

 Ah, my Lord, I become so tired sometimes. That latest assignment you gave me has been so hard. Sometimes I complain knowing I should not because that would make me a Christian coward.

Is it okay if I am afraid sometimes? I am only one and am trying to keep my head above water along with others I am trying to pull out of the flood with me. I’m trying, Lord. I weep sometimes, but amidst my tears, I continually think, “What should my next step be?”.

Sometimes I just stand still and let the turmoil go on around me while I close my eyes and sing a sweet song to you. That’s when I sense you are singing with me.

At other times I stand up to all the turmoil charging at me. You gave me your weapons: a smile, a touch, a gentle word.

Then there are those terrible times when I feel so beaten up, I think all is lost. Then I remember you are there.  You are always there.  And I know you are shielding me while I rest.

Then we start all over again, you and I, Lord. Another assignment. Another. And another. Until at last, you reach out your arms to me and say, “Well done, good and faithful servant. It’s time to come on home.”

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00-Stephen-Cover-Kindle-ThumbnailSTEPHEN:  UNLIKELY MARTYR.  In Antioch, Stephen’s best friend is crucified for defacing its patron goddess, and the city turns on Jews. He flees to Cyrene. There he meets Simon. Persecution against Jews is worse here.  When Stephen visits Jerusalem for Passover, he sees Simon carrying the cross of Jesus. They both become Christians and the persecution starts all over again.  Here he becomes a deacon to help Greek widows and is given the power to perform miracles by the apostles. Saul goes after both Stephen and Simon of Cyrene. They rush to save each other’s lives. To BUY NOW, click a book cover or paste this:  https://bit.ly/StephenUnlikelyMartyr                     https://inspirationsbykatheryn.wordpress.com/books-more-biblical-historical-novels/book-7-stephen-unlikely-martyr/