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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 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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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ October 16

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

Oops of the Day

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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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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Saturday 6/2 ~ Too busy to be inconvenienced?

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The scripture for today, June 2, is Galatians 6:2 as found in the New Testament of the Bible:

00-Cover-KINDLE-Thumbnail-New“Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way, you will fulfill the law of Christ.”

In case you’re thinking people should take care of their own problems, you are right. But the term “burdens” here refers to overloads.

The main reason this is hard to do is that taking on someone else’s overloaded burdens upsets your daily routine and our peace of mind. It is inconvenient. 

Just remember, it is always inconvenient for those people to have an overload of burdens. They don’t want them. Many times they didn’t ask for them. But, even if they did ask for them with foolish acts, can we not roll up our sleeves and help them out for a little while (not forever)?

You do not have to take on all their problems. But you can give them relief of some of the basic problems so they can concentrate on the more serious ones.  If they need a babysitter, find one for them. If they don’t have decent clothes to go to work, take them to Goodwill.  If they’re behind financially, buy them a tank of gas.  If they haven’t written their parents for a year, sit with them while they write that letter. Take their overburden from them.

What if Jesus had said, “Hey, it’s not my problem! Those people on earth mess up their lives all the time. Why should I leave the comforts of heaven to live among sinners and misery?” But he didn’t say that. Thank God he didn’t say that.

Inconvenient for him to take our overloaded burdens to his cross? Yes. Did he want to do it? No. But he did what was necessary to rescue us. Do we really and truly want to be like Him?

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Wednesday 5/16 ~ Smile. The world will wonder why

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The scripture for today, May 16 (5/16), is 1st Thessalonians 5:16 (KJV) as found in the New Testament of the Bible:

“Rejoice evermore.”

But how can we rejoice when something terrible has happened?

The Apostle Paul who wrote this knew that the Thessalonians were being terribly persecuted (2nd Thessalonians 1:4), but he still said, “Rejoice evermore.” How could he say such a calloused thing amidst their suffering?  Had he no feeling, no empathy?

Sometimes we have to suffer so the true nature of bad people pretending to be good can be revealed to the world. Sometimes we have to suffer so we can build our spiritual muscles.  Sometimes we have to suffer so we can understand others going through the same thing.

Just remember that, just as God was grieved when his Son suffered on the cross, he is grieved when you suffer. And just as God was able to bring something wonderful out of his Son’s suffering, he can bring something wonderful out of yours too.

In the meantime, chin up, shoulders back, stand straight, be brave, and smile. The world will wonder why.

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