Oops of the Day

Jesus was made a little lower than angels.

Psalm 8:4-6 – Hebrews 2:6

Fact Of the Day 

No!  In both Greek and Hebrew, this word means messenger, emissary or envoy; someone who or something that carries a message or charge, without further saying what kind of being is doing the messaging.  Malachi predicted there were going to be two messengers with two messages – one (John the Baptist) to introduce the second messenger (Jesus), and the second messenger to introduce the kingdom of God.  Psalm 8:6 says this messenger created the world, and all things were put under his feet. Angels cannot create and will never have all things under their feet. The translation should be that God made him a little lower than God by putting him in a human body.  

Oops of the Day

A witch caused Samuel to come back from the dead to talk to King Saul.

I Samuel 28:11-14 & 19 – Deuteronomy 24:1

Fact Of the Day 

No! (1) The witch was surprised when she saw the “ghost”. (2) It came up out of the ground. Any human God allowed to return to earth always did so from the sky. (3) Just because what the “ghost” said came true does not prove it was Samuel; Pagan Balaam’s prophecy came true; but he was condemned in Revelation.

Oops of the Day

David was a mere boy when he killed Goliath.

I Samuel 16:17- I Samuel 17:38-39

Fact Of the Day 

No!  He was “a mighty man of valor’” when he sang for Saul to calm him soon after killing Goliath.  He was big enough to wear Saul’s armor.  He had already killed a lion and bear with his bare hands.

Oops of the Day

 

Saul was always a bad king.

I Samuel 13:1 – I Samuel 14:47-52

Fact Of the Day 

No!  For over 40 years, he fought all of Israel’s enemies valiantly in order to protect his people.  On all sides, one nation or another was always invading and trying to take over the Promised Land.  At the end, it was jealousy that destroyed King Saul.

Oops of the Day

 

Only priests from the tribe of Levi ever served as high priest.

I Samuel 1:1-2 – I Samuel 2:15 –  I Samuel 2:34-35 – I Samuel 3:19-21 – I Chronicles 6:1, 25-38

Fact Of the Day 

No! Even though Samuel was not a Levite, he served as high priest.  Samuel’s father was Elkhanah, an Ephriamite. But when High Priest Eli did not try to stop his priestly sons’ sins, God said he was going to choose the next high priest himself and it was not going to be by inheritance as before.  Samuel’s later descendants were identified as Levites.  Apparently, Levite High Priest, Eli, adopted Samuel at age 2-4 when his mother took him to the temple to live. God himself qualified Samuel to be high priest. 

Oops of the Day

 

Moses left his wife, Zipporah, back in Media and married another woman.

Exodus 2:21 – Exodus 18:3-4 – Exodus 4:20-26  – Exodus 7:7 – Exodus18:1-6 & 27 – Exodus 19:1 – Exodus 6:16-23 – Exodus 12:1 – Hebrews 3:2

Fact Of the Day 

No! Moses was 40 when he married Zipporah.  They had two sons – Gershon (not the son of Moses’ grandfather Levi) & Eleazar. (not the son of brother Aaron).  After 40 years of marriage at age 80, Moses took his wife and two sons with him to head for Egypt.  Part of the way there, Zipporah circumcised one of their sons (now ages 40 and c 38).  Moses sent them back to Midian (for the circumcised son to heal and because of too many hardships).  But, in less than 3 months after Moses freed the slaves, his father-in-law brought his wife and two sons to Moses.  Soon after, his father-in-law left, but not Moses’s wife and sons. Some time later, Moses’s sister and brother complained about the Cushite woman he had married.  Historians sometimes describe Cush as Ethiopia, sometimes Sudan, sometimes Yemen, sometimes South Arabia.  Media was a nomadic tribe in Arabia.  Centuries later in Hebrews 3:2, it says Moses and all his household were faithful to God.

Oops of the Day

 

Only the high priest ever entered the Holy of Holies of the Tabernacle or Temple.  Even then, he could only do it once a year.

I Samuel 2:26 – I Samuel 3:3-4 & 9 – Hebrews 10:19-25

Fact Of the Day 

No! The boy Samuel slept in the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle.  God gave a prophecy to Samuel while he slept there.  God makes the rules and God can break them.

Surprise of the Day

 

Samuel’s family was musical.

I Samuel 1:1-2 – I Samuel 1:10-11 – I Samuel 8:1-2 – I Chronicles 6:25-48

Fact Of the Day 

When Samuel’s barren future mother, Hannah, prayed for a son, she made a vow and “sang” [Hebrew] it to the Lord (as did David later on).  Samuel’s son, Joel, was rebellious, but Joel’s son was a good priest.  One of Samuel’s grandsons was “Heman the singer” in Temple worship, as were all his musical descendants after that.

Oops of the Day

 

If anyone has a vision, it proves they are saved.

Numbers 23:7-10 – Numbers 23:18-24 – Revelation 2:14

Fact Of the Day 

No! The pagan prophet Balaam made beautiful prophecies about the Israelites and Jesus, a savior who would come 2000 years later. But, in Revelation, the last book of the Bible, it says he turned right around and enticed those same Israelites to sin by eating food offered to idols and worshiping with prostitute temple priestesses in Moab (today’s Jordan).

Surprise of the Day

TABOR:  A mountain of warriors and carpenters

Judges 4  and Mark 6:3

Fact Of the Day 

This is the mountain to which Deborah, prophetess and fourth judge of the new Israelite nation, was told by God to lead her army so God could destroy the giant Canaanites there. When the Canaanites arrived, God caused a wadi to flood and wash their chariots and army away.

Some eleven centuries later, carpenters briefly became lumber jacks and went to this mountain to cut down trees and replenish their supply of lumber.  Nazareth was in the foothill of Mount Tabor.  One of those lumber jack carpenters was undoubtedly Jesus in his teens and twenties.