Today’s Hebrew Testament chronological reading is in 2 Chronicles 25 and 26.
The Psalms/ Proverbs reading is in Psalm 49.
The Greek Testament reading is in Acts 20.
ESSENTIAL STUDIES.
2 Chronicles 25 and 26, Chiastic structure
Additional studies: Chronicles Index
We see the pattern repeat today, of success and might lifting up the heart of the king, so that he turns from his beginning in doing right. The chiastic structure even seems to link pride with anger, and I think Scripture might be giving us a clue, that anger is one of the fruits of pride. Another repetition we see is refusal to listen to correction from God’s appointed authority. We have previously seen in Proverbs that a fool refuses to listen to correction, and fools likewise are lifted up in pride or anger, while wise men walk in humility. What feeds wisdom to diminish pride? The fear of YHVH. What feeds the fear of YHVH? The word of God, especially the Law of God. Listen, the Law of God is not evil, just because obedience to it is not the means of salvation. It has a definite beautiful purpose to play in our long-term blessing, for us and for our children.
Psalm 49, The Father’s esteem
Additional studies: Psalms Book Two: 42-72 Index
The man whom the world esteems is someone who appears honorable or of high degree—perhaps wealthy, influential, or famous—but because they trust in their wealth or status to secure them, they lack true stability. They will go to the grave, and their exalted status cannot prevent that. Their great wealth or glory is not enough to ransom their soul with God. Lacking this basic wisdom shows up the folly of whomever the world esteems. Their esteem is hollow, and they are like the dumb beasts that perish.
But the upright, though not esteemed by the world, will have dominion over them. God redeems the upright from the power of the grave. They are not like dumb beasts that perish.
Acts 20, Chiastic structure
Additional studies: Acts Index
This chapter is full of detail, detail, detail of the journey Paul took on his way back to Jerusalem. Why does the Lord include things like this in the Scripture? First of all, passages like this provide internal evidence that this letter was written by someone who journeyed with Paul at the time the journey was taken. It is a chapter that reads as if it was written from the pages of a diary, all the minutia included. No one writing 100 or 200 years later, as the liberal theologians like to claim the Greek Testament Scriptures were written, would think to include stuff like this. There is no idle word in Scripture! All of it serves a purpose, even if that purpose is to refute the pin-headed theories the theologians would bring against its authenticity and authority millennia later!
THREE-YEAR BIBLE.
The three-year plan is here.
Today’s reading is in Esther 6.
Suggested study: Esther 6, Bible for Beginners.
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