Today’s Hebrew Testament chronological reading is in Deuteronomy 31 and 32.
The Psalms/ Proverbs reading is in Psalm 113.
The Greek Testament reading is in Mark 7.
ESSENTIAL STUDIES.
Deuteronomy 32, Course correction
Additional studies: Deuteronomy Index
The judgment His people endured—carried away captive by Assyria and Babylonia, and scattered to the four winds—cleansed them so thoroughly of their idolatry, that later when they were returned to the land, and first the Greeks, then the Romans, tried to ban their worship or add idolatry to it, the Jews would rather die at the hands of the Greeks or Romans than submit to paganism again. Therefore the judgment: it cleansed His people of their besetting sin when all else failed. I always told my children, “Let yourself be corrected by instruction rather than by consequences. For it is unavoidable that correction will come, and you get to choose which way it will come. But correction by consequences is so much more painful.”
Psalm 113, Humble and lowly
Additional studies: Psalms Book Five (107-150) Index
YHVH is so high, that He must humble Himself to behold the heavens and the earth. And yet, though He dwells in a high and holy place—the highest and holiest place—He also dwells with him who has a humble spirit. He does not despise the lowly as man does, but He is at home among the lowly hearts. ♥
Mark 7, Harmonizing the Scriptures
Additional studies: Mark Index
This chapter might contain the most misleading translation in the entire Gospels, which reinforces the anti- Torah bias in the Church, but which Jesus never said, and Mark never wrote. Jesus never said that because something enters the stomach and is eliminated, all foods are now purified. That is the mistranslation issue, which is present in modern English translations, but not in the Greek, the Textus Receptus, or the original English translations such as the King James. And if we have the sense of Mark aright, Matthew and Luke, who also record this dispute, will harmonize with Mark (they do). And if we have the sense of the Gospels aright, then the rest of the New Testament will harmonize with them (they do; links in the post).
THREE-YEAR BIBLE.
The three-year plan is here.
Today’s reading is in Galatians 4.
Suggested study: Galatians 4, Bible for Beginners.
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