Today’s Hebrew Testament chronological reading is in 2 Kings 24.
The Psalms/ Proverbs reading is in Psalm 103.
The Greek Testament reading is in John 20.
ESSENTIAL STUDIES.
2 Kings 24, Historical background
Additional studies: 1&2 Kings Index
Zedekiah at first submitted, but after a time, he allied himself with Egypt and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar, instigating the fourth advance against Jerusalem by the Babylonians. And after a siege of 2-1/2 years, the city fell (586 BC). Nebuchadnezzar by this time had had enough of the rebellions of the kings of Judah, and he removed the house of David from being king over them. It looked as if the promise of God to David had failed … but God’s promises fail not. God was not done, and this was not the last act on the stage of world history for either Judah or the prince of the house of David!
Psalm 103, Reverse parallelism
Additional studies: Psalms Book Four: 90-106 Index
The never- ending compassion, the steadfast mercy of YHVH, and His forgiveness is the central portion of the structure. Wrapping that, are His ways which He made known to Moses. The matching pair reveals that His ways are expressed in His covenant and by His commandments. God did not just pull commandments out of thin air and give them to Moses. He encoded the way He Himself walks, and gave that knowledge to Moses as commandments, so that His children could walk in His mercy and righteousness after Him. When you love Him whose righteousness and whose commandments they are, keeping them is not a burden but a delight! ♥
John 20, Chiastic structure
Additional studies: John Index
What an unusual central axis, that Mary did not know she was speaking to Jesus, until He revealed Himself to her. This has happened previously in Scripture. In Gen 46, Joseph, who acts as a Prophetic Type of Messiah, receives his brothers when they come to buy food, but they do not recognize him until he makes himself known to them. But this is what Jesus has been doing for the past 2000 years: revealing Himself to all who would come to Him. We do not find Him, but He finds us and makes Himself known to us.
THREE-YEAR BIBLE.
The three-year plan is here.
Today’s reading is in Job 9.
Suggested study: Job 9, Bible for Beginners.
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