Oops of the Day  

The Bible says no prophet ever came from the province of Galilee.  So how could Jesus be from Galilee?

John 7:52  –  Bible Book of Jonah  –  Bible Book of Nahum.

Fact of the Day

No!  The people being quoted in the Bible were lying!  They hated Jesus and wanted to get people to stop believing in him.  So, they said this.  

JONAH, a book in the Bible is about a prophet named Jonah.  He lived in Gath-hepher, not far from Nazareth in the province of Galilee.

NAHUM, a book in the Bible, is about the prophecies of Nahum.  The important, walled city in Galilee, Caper-naum means “city of Nahum” and is on the Sea of Galilee.

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The Samaritan woman at the well had lived with five men not her husband and the current one was not.  And she was an outcast since she went to the well at noon (Jewish time) or 5:00 PM (Roman time) and everyone always got their day’s supply of water in the morning.

John 4:15-18 – John 4:39-42

Fact of the Day

No!  This woman had gone through the agony of being widowed five times! True, her sixth was not her husband, but she had been married to the others and lost them probably in tragedies of diseases and accidents and maybe    even war.  Would you like to live through the deaths of five spouses? Jesus never said she was an adulterer.  He never said she had lived with all five men without marrying them. He only said she was doing wrong with the 6th man.  She was respected in the city. When she told people about Jesus, she influenced the WHOLE CITY to go to Jesus and hear him.  Let’s be careful how we judge others, and be careful not to follow the crowd.

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When Christians die, they go to paradise and have to wait for heaven.

Luke 16:19-31  –  John 3:13  –  Luke 23:39-44  –  Ephesians 4:8  –  Revelation 22:2  –  Philippians 1:23  –  Revelation 10:6 (KJV)

Fact of the Day

No! Jesus’ parable of the beggar dying and going to Abraham was before he died and conquered Satan by coming back to life.  The Mosaic Law was still in effect.  The same with Jesus on the cross and telling the other crucified one he would be in paradise.

 Jesus referred to paradise while he was still alive.  But he descended to Paradise to bring captives up in his train, for the tree of life formerly in the paradise of Eden is now in heaven. Now, when the Christian dies, he is immediately with Jesus.  Is Jesus not in heaven?

Since in our next life “time will be no more” it seems the Day of Judgment will be for each of us the day we die.

Remember the times when Paul said he looked forward to dying and being with Jesus?  He didn’t say he was going to be with Abraham.  Oh, happy day!

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Surprise of the Day  

Why did Jesus keep telling people “Yes, yes,” “Truly, truly,” “Verily, verily”?

John 1:51  –  John 3:3 & 5 & 11  –  John 5:19 & 24 & 35  –  John 6:26 & 32 & 47 & 53  –  John 8:34 & 51 & 58  –  John 10:1 & 7  –  John 12:24  –   John 13:16 & 20-21 & 38  –  John 14:12  –  John 16:20 & 23  –  John 21:18

Fact of the Day

Twenty-five times in his life of Christ, the Apostle John quoted Jesus as saying, “Truly, truly.”  The King James Version reads “Verily, verily.”  It seems silly to write it that way.  But remember, Jesus was the Way, the Truth, the Life.  He was saying, “I AM telling you the truth.  OTHERS will not.  You need to hear this.  Don’t believe everything people tell you.  Believe what I am telling you.  You can trust me because I AM TRUTH.”

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Surprise of the Day  

How did Nathaniel figure out Jesus was the Son of God when he had just met him moments earlier?

John 1:48-50

Fact of the Day

 As soon as Jesus told Nathaniel he saw him in an orchard the day before, Nathaniel knew he was the Son of God.  How? 

• Jesus was not in the orchard when Nathaniel was there.  
• Only God can see “long distance”.

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When Andrew went to tell his brother, Peter, he had found the promised Messiah, they were at home in Bethsaida by Lake Galilee where they fished for a living.

John 1:28  –  John 1:40-43  –  John 2:1

Fact of the Day

No!   John was preaching and baptizing in Bethany in the province of Judea. Philip and Nathaniel were down there too.  Andrew and Peter may have been down there lining up merchants for their fishing business.  They arrived in Cana of Galilee after traveling three days. Finally, they went back home and Jesus healed Peter’s mother-in-law in Bethsaida.

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The Israelites were poor when they were slaves and  left Goshen, Egypt

Numbers 7:13ff –  Genesis 47:28  –   Genesis 50:22 –  Deuteronomy 34:7 – Genesis 45:10  –  Genesis 46:28-34  –   Genesis 47:1-27 – Genesis 50:8  –   Exodus 8:22  –  Exodus 9:26

Fact of the Day

No!   The escaped slaves were only 3-1/2 generations from Joseph and some had known Joseph’s grandchildren.

• Father Jacob died at age 147 (Gen. 47:28).
  Joseph died at age 110 (Genesis 50:22)
  Moses died at age 120 (Deuteronomy 34:7).
  AVG AGE 126 years.

They were there 3-1/2 generations (430 years). Joseph lived to see 3 generations (Genesis 50:22-23)

Pharaoh not only gave them Goshen (the best land of Egypt) to live in, but Joseph probably built a house (estate for each brother and his father) and occasionally gave them gifts.

They lived in Goshen the whole time until their escape. So probably lived in the same fine houses they lived in while Joseph was in power.

After the tabernacle was erected in the wilderness, each tribe donated
-1 silver bowl weighing 3-1/4 pounds of silver which would be worth $635 USD each in 2025
-1 fire pan weighing 4 ounces of gold which would be worth $12,200 USD each in 2025

They do not seem to have come from donations from the Egyptians (for back pay?) when they left because they were ALL ALIKE. Perhaps they had been gifts from brother Joseph since he likely gave his father and brothers all the same gifs.

By the way, the total value of all the donations (minus the animals) would be

• -$7620 USD total value of silver in 2025
• -$146,400 USD total value in gold in 2025
• $154,020 USD TOTAL VALUE IN 2025

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Joseph, who saved the Egyptians from starvation through 7 years of famine, enjoyed high status as second in power under Pharaoh the rest of his life.

Genesis 50:22-25  –  Genesis 47:18-19  –   Genesis 15:13-14  –  Genesis 50:4-6  –  Genesis 48:21

Fact of the Day

No!  Joseph lived long enough to see the third generation of his descendants. His brothers’ families were slaves in Egypt 400 years. What happened? (ALL DATES BELOW BASED ON WIKIPEDIA’S LIST OF PHARAOHS)

• BIAU was reigning when Joseph arrived at age 17
  AI reigned 24 years (Joseph age 21-45)

Joseph was age 44 when famine ended when Pharaoh owned everything and had turned the Egyptians into his slaves.

• INI reigned 2 years  Joseph age 46-48)
  SEWADJTU reigned 3 years (Joseph age 48-51)
  INED reigned 3 years (Joseph age 52-55)
  HORI reigned 5 years ( Joseph age 55-60.

IT SEEMS THERE WAS UTTER CHAOS AND REVOLTS FROM THE SLAVE CITIZENS AFTER BIAU DIED.  After Hori died, there were 14 years of Pharaoh’s that archaeologists have not even found the names of.

Moses freed the slaves around 1275 BC.  Counting back 400 years is 1675, 5 years after Pharaoh died who had made all the Egyptians his slaves. Joseph age 48 when Israelite slavery began)

Now it was payback time. The people must have hated both that Pharaoh and Joseph for making them Pharaoh’s slaves as a result of the famine. But still Joseph was a prince.

JOSEPH WAS AGE 57 WHEN HIS FATHER DIED BUT COULD NOT SPEAK TO PHARAOH DIRECTLY.  He spoke to someone in Pharaoh’s household and asked them to ask Pharaoh to let Joseph go back to Canaan to bury his father, with a promise to return (Genesis 50:4-6). 

JOSEPH WAS AGE 48 WHEN HIS BROTHERS’ FAMILIES BECAME SLAVES.

JOSEPH WAS 57 WHEN FATHER JACOB/ISRAEL DIED. He told Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you and take you back to the land of your fathers.” 

WHEN JOSEPH DIED he told his brothers “God will surely come to your aid and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

Both Joseph and his father were embalmed, so Joseph still was treated as a prince, perhaps still living in his fine estate, but a minor prince with little or no power by the time of his death.

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• Father Jacob died at age 147 (Gen. 47:28).
•  Joseph died at age 110 (Genesis 50:22)
• Moses died at age 120 (Deuteronomy 34:7).
•  AVG AGE 126 years.

 They were there 3-1/2 generations (430 years).  Joseph lived to see 3 generations (Genesis 50:22-23)

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Oops of the Day  

In the story of “THE PRODIGAL SON”, the older brother should have forgiven his younger and lazy brother who finally came home.  And he should have forgiven their father for giving a party for his returned brother, even though their father never gave the hard-working older brother a party.

Luke 15:11-14 – Luke 15:22-25 – Luke 15:30-32

Fact of the Day

No!   It was much more than that.  It was jealousy, greed, and a desire for all or nothing.  As the oldest son, he was going to inherit their father’s entire estate (see v. 31), yet he resented one little party given to his brother.  Also, their father thought his youngest was dead; the older one acted as though he wished his brother was dead. This was a lesson in forgiveness on the part of everyone!

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Oops of the Day  

Zebedee, the father of James and John was betrayed by Jesus when he recruited his sons and also Peter, Andrew, his fishing partners so that his fishing business would fail.

Luke 5:4-11

Fact of the Day

No!  Just before recruiting them, Jesus performed a miracle.   They caught so many fish when fish weren’t supposed to be feeding that their nets were about to break.  Was that a message to Zebedee, the owner, that his fishing business will do fine?

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