Today’s Hebrew Testament chronological reading is in Amos 7 through 9.
The Psalms/ Proverbs reading is in Psalm 47.
The Greek Testament reading is in Acts 18.
ESSENTIAL STUDIES.
Amos 7 through 9, Israel sifted like wheat
Additional studies: Amos Index
When Amos was told to go home to Judah, and prophesy no more at Bethel of the death of the king and the captivity of Israel, YHVH decreed (since Israel despised hearing the word of YHVH) that the days were coming, when there would be a famine of hearing the word of YHVH, and the people would seek for it diligently but not find it (Amo 8:11-12). In fact, this happened, as there was a four hundred-year period in between the last Hebrew Testament prophet, Malachi, and the birth of Yeshua, the Living Word, when there was no prophet in Israel.
But notice how wonderfully YHVH ended that famine: He came Himself, the Living Word incarnate, in Yeshua our Lord!
Psalm 47, Sing praises to God
Additional studies: Psalms Book Two: 42-72 Index
How interesting is the connection between singing our praise to God, with harvesting fruit. When our lips render to Him the praise due His name, we are offering a fruitful harvest back to Him!
Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. Heb 13:15 ♥
Acts 18, Recognizing Yeshua
Additional studies: Acts Index
Just a note about vs.18-21: if the Law was abolished, then what was Paul doing obeying points out of the Law? Cutting his hair because he had taken a vow, is a reference to the Law of the Nazirite (Num 6:1-21). Refusing to stay longer in Ephesus, because he had to celebrate the Feast in Jerusalem, was a reference to the command that males were to present themselves before YHVH in Jerusalem for the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Pentecost, and Tabernacles (Exo 23:14-17). Who forgot to send him the memo that the resurrection of Yeshua had done away with all these things?
THREE-YEAR BIBLE.
The three-year plan is here.
Today’s reading is in Esther 4.
Suggested study: Esther 4, Bible for Beginners.
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