Today’s Hebrew Testament chronological reading is in 1 Chronicles 22 and 23.
The Psalms/ Proverbs reading is in Proverbs 24.
The Greek Testament reading is in Luke 5.
ESSENTIAL STUDIES.
1 Chronicles 22 and 23, Chiastic structure
Additional studies: 1 and 2 Chronicles Index
The phrase that continually repeats, is, “the house of the name of the LORD our God.” Isn’t it interesting that it is house of His name, and not the house of His person? He does not dwell in temples made with hands. But He has placed His name in His house forever. His personal name is represented in English Bibles as LORD, all in caps (or GOD), standing in for the tetragrammaton יהוה of YHVH found in the Hebrew Scriptures. The pictographs portray “The hand (yud) behold! (hey) The nail (vav) behold! (hey)”
“Look upon My love and mercy for you, as expressed in the crucifixion of Messiah Yeshua upon the cross!”
The place of YHVH’s name (Look upon My mercy) is the place where the sword of the destroying angel was stayed, the place where His mercy was exercised. It is the place where the altar of burnt offering was built, which David charged Solomon to build. The place where sacrifices for sin were brought, so that sins could be atoned for. When Yeshua came to fulfill the meaning of YHVH’s name, His sacrifice for sin was once for all, therefore after His death and resurrection the Temple was destroyed, and has not been built since.
Proverbs 24, Why we correct our children
Additional studies: Proverbs Index
We saw in the last few chapters that there is a difference between the rod of correction and the rod of anger, and we unpacked the 1A.2 pair, the admonition to not withhold correction from a child. Today we learn that the reason we do not withhold correction from a child, is that a child, whose heart is bound up with foolishness, is stumbling toward death. Death and destruction is the end of foolishness, if one does not turn. And godly correction is designed to help children make that turn. Godly correction delivers a child from death.
Luke 5, The new wineskin
Additional studies: Luke Index
In the parable of the new wine and new wineskins, Jesus is teaching the scribes and the Pharisees why there is a necessity for a new covenant, even if they don’t know that is what He is teaching them yet. We saw in Luke 3, that the new covenant provided for the new birth (Joh 3:5), the new heart (Eze 11:19-20), and the new nature (2 Cor 5:17). All of this new wine had to be put into a new wineskin, that is, the new covenant.
The old covenant required us to obey the Father’s commandments written on two tablets of stone outside the man. With the new covenant, we obey the Father’s commandments written on the tablets of our heart inside the man, from a new nature. That is one thing that is better about the better promise (Heb 8:6). But we do not make the mistake of some, and disregard the Law altogether (Mat 5:17-19).
THREE-YEAR BIBLE.
The three-year plan is here.
Today’s reading is in Ezra 2.
Suggested study: Ezra 2, Bible for Beginners.
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