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OOP OF THE DAY ~ October 29

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

Oops of the Day

God is good.  And I never did anything really, really bad.  So he’ll forgive me for everything I ever did and let me into heaven.

Proverbs 1:18  –  Proverbs 1:27-33  –  Proverbs 3:20-34  –  Proverbs 8:36  –   Matthew 7:2 – and many more

Fact of the Day 

No!  Don’t forget the boomerang effect.  What we do to others backfires on us.  It’s throughout the Bible.

  • Proverbs 1:18 – commit armed robbery
  • Proverbs 1:27ff – Find excuses to not read God’s advice — the Bible
  • Proverbs 3:27-28- Too busy to help someone needing you
  • Proverbs 3:30-34 – Lie about someone
  • Proverbs 8:36 – Hate God
  • Matthew 7:2 – Are judgmental of others.

….and many more.

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SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ October 28

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

Surprise of the Day

 A WARNING TO FIVE GENERATIONS IN ONE PSALM

Psalm 78

Fact of the Day 

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

This is a warning that our inheritance could be taken away.  So, stand fast.  God had freed the Jewish slaves from Egypt, but…

1 – They kept the mentality of complaining slaves until, over 40 years wandering in the wilderness as nomads, they all died. (Generation 1)
2- They kept the mentality of children of slaves until, after God gave them a land to settle in, they complained again and the generation of the slave children all died. (Generation 2-3)
3- – Therefore, God takes away the throne of Jacob’s oldest son by his favorite wife – Joseph & Ephriam — and gives it to Judah, the oldest responsible son of Jacob’s hated wife.  (Generation 4-5)

Hmmmm.    

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ October 27

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

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 Jesus was made a little lower than angels.

Psalm 8:4-6  –   Malachi 3:1  –  Hebrews 2:6

Fact of the Day 

No.  The original Hebrew of the Old Testament and original Greek of the New Testament both say “messenger,” often translated into English as angel.   

But there are other kinds of messengers besides angels.   Malachi predicted there were going to be two messengers – (1) a first messenger to introduce the second messenger, and (2) the second messenger.

Psalm 8:6 says this second messenger created the world, and all things were put under his feet.  Angels do not create and will never have all things under their feet.  The translation should be that God made him a little lower than God. 

Malachi was prophecying about John the Baptist and Jesus.

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SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ October 25

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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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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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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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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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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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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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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ October 16

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Daniel was still alive when Esther married Xerxes (Ahaseurus), emperor of the Persian Empire, and her grandson was King DARIUS, son of Xerxes (Ahaseurus) as mentioned in Daniel 9.

Esther 1:1-2  –  Daniel 1:1f  –  Daniel 5:31  –  II Kings 24  –  II Chronicles 36

Fact of the Day 

No! It seems like a strong possibility since Esther and Daniel were both in Persia.  So,when Ezra wrote an account of these events, he was meticulous with his dates.

  • DANIEL b. c. 610 BC into Jerusalem’s royal family.
  • To Babylon with the rest of the royal family 594 when he may have been age 16?
  • King XyaXARES of Media was Darius the Mede’s grandfather.
  • KING DARIUS I (THE MEDE), reigned 522-486 using the Law of the Medes and Persians. 
  • In 520 when Daniel had the vision, he was c. 90 years old.
  • Esther’s Artaxerxes was much later.
  • KING XERXES I reigned 486-who m. ESTHER d. 464
  • King Artaxerxes I:  reigned 464-423 (her son?)
  • His grandson was Darius II, who reigned 424–404 BC

DANIEL WOULD HAVE BEEN 186 YEARS OLD IN DARIUS II’s 1ST YEAR.

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