Today’s Hebrew Testament chronological reading is in Jonah 1 and 2.
The Psalms/ Proverbs reading is in Psalm 51.
The Greek Testament reading is in Galatians 5.
Essential Studies.
Jonah 1 and 2, Historical background
Additional studies: Jonah Index
YHVH sent Jonah to Nineveh, which was the greatest city in the ancient world at that time. We have previously read that Joash and Jeroboam, kings of Israel, were able to gain the upper hand in their struggle against Syria, who had oppressed them a long time. Syria was at this time threatened with a power which had arisen on her eastern border, and so her attention was diverted from Israel. God raised up a deliverer for Israel (2 Kin 13:5): Assyria, the power which had arisen to the east of Syria.
Psalm 51, Chiastic structure
Additional studies: Psalms, Book Two: Psalms 42-72 Index
Uphold me by Your generous Spirit/ Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God. The surrounding pairs in the Chiastic structure force these together. While I was meditating on what it could mean, I remembered that Jesus equated the Holy Spirit with the Comforter. In Greek it is parakletos, He who comes alongside to uphold, an Advocate. Your advocate goes with you before the judge to plead your case for acquital, or deliverance from guilt. God our Father is so amazing. Against Him, and Him only, have we sinned, and yet He has provided not only our Sin Sacrifice in Messiah Yeshua, but also our Advocate to uphold our head and plead our case for us, so that we are delivered of the guilt of our sins. ♥
Galatians 5:1-6, Fallen from grace
Additional studies: Galatians Index
We are no longer under the indictment of the Law, which says, if we sin, we die. We have been set free. Moreover, Messiah liberated us from that into which we were born, by making us born again with a new nature and a new heart, and now we obey God from our hearts within us, because we desire to do so. This is our freedom in Messiah. Our right actions flow out of our right hearts, and living our lives in a way that pleases YHVH flows out of us like second nature, because we have been made over again in His image.
Three-year Bible.
The three-year plan is here.
Today’s reading is in 1 Peter 1.
Suggested study: 1 Peter 1, Bible for Beginners.
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