Today’s Hebrew Testament chronological reading is in Jeremiah 1 and 2.
The Psalms/ Proverbs reading is in Psalm 97.
The Greek Testament reading is in John 16.
ESSENTIAL STUDIES.
Jeremiah 1, Watching over My Word
Additional studies: Jeremiah Index
The Hebrew word for ‘almond tree,’ shaqed, comes from the root word shaqad, ‘to watch, to awaken.’ The almond tree is the earliest bloomer in Israel’s winter landscape, bursting into white-pink flowers in January or February, often while snow is still lingering in the hills. It ‘wakes up’ before other trees, heralding spring’s imminent arrival. Farmers and shepherds watched for those blossoms as the sign of winter’s end.
Jeremiah has seen the almond branch, shaqed, signaling that YHVH is watching over His word, shaqad, as it will be budding soon.
Psalm 97, Chiastic structure
Additional studies: Psalms Book Four: 90-106 Index
And we should pause for a minute and reflect on the connection between authority and righteousness. Usurpers of authority often have flagrant disregard for either justice or wickedness, as their defining characteristics. No one sent and established by God does.
John 16, Chiastic structure
Additional studies: John Index
When we ask the Father for something in the name of Jesus, like healing the sick, raising the dead, multiplying food, or wisdom which confounds the world—the works which He did, which we also will do—, and He does it (2A.2), it bears witness of Jesus (1A.2), that He came forth from the Father, and returned to the Father, His body not being in the grave, but raised from the dead.
THREE-YEAR BIBLE.
The three-year plan is here.
Today’s reading is in Job 3.
Suggested study: Job 3, Bible for Beginners.
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