Today’s Hebrew Testament chronological reading is in Daniel 5 and 6.
The Psalms/ Proverbs reading is in Proverbs 4.
The Greek Testament reading is in Revelation 4.
Essential Studies.
Daniel 5 and 6, Daniel in the Lion’s Den
Additional studies: Daniel Index
After Belshazzar’s feast ended with the handwriting on the wall, the city of Babylon surrendered without a fight to the Persian general Darius the Mede. Cyrus the Great, now master of an empire greater than Assyria or Babylonia had ever been, entered the city in triumph and shortly thereafter appointed this same Darius as king over the former Babylonian territories. To administer the vast new conquest, Darius established 120 provincial governors, and placed three chief administrators over them, and—to the furious jealousy of the Persian and Median aristocracy—gave the highest place to the aged Daniel, whose wisdom and integrity had already survived the courts of Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar. It was this sudden exaltation of a Babylonian official and a Jew that provoked the nobles to trick Darius into issuing the infamous thirty-day decree that no one might petition any god or man except the king, a decree that set the stage for Daniel’s night in the lions’ den and one of the most joyous deliverances in all of Scripture.
Proverbs 4, Knowledge, Understanding, and Wisdom
Additional studies: Proverbs Index
But we cannot know good from evil, benefit from chaos, from our own judgment. We are fallen, flawed, and our heart is desperately wicked. No one can achieve wisdom without learning it from YHVH’s mouth. He reveals the benefit or chaos, the good or bad, the truth or lie. Which leads us back to book knowledge again. Think of the three, knowledge, understanding, and wisdom, as a cyclical progression that never stops.
Revelation 4, The door open in Heaven
Additional studies: Revelation Index
The door was standing open in heaven, because of the crucifixion and resurrection of Messiah Yeshua, in 33 AD. This is the door He opens, that no one can shut, and door He shuts, when we come to that time, that no one can then open (Rev 3:7). He accomplished this work in His FIRST ADVENT.
Now the door opened verse fragment is a matching element, in the greater chiastic structure of Revelation, to, “Now I saw HEAVEN OPENED, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war (Rev 19:11). What follows is the work He accomplishes in His SECOND ADVENT as King of kings and Lord of lords. As we will learn as we go through the book, all the seals, trumpets, and bowls of wrath have already happened, and we are living, at this time in history, on the very cusp of His return!
Three-year Bible.
The three-year plan is here.
Today’s reading is in Lamentations 2.
Suggested study: Lamentations 2, Bible for Beginners.
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