Deuteronomy 19
- After God gives them the land and casts out their enemies they will set aside 3 cities.
- They are to measure the distances and split the land into 3 parts.
- These three cities will be where a manslayer can go.
- A manslayer who can flee is someone that accidentally killed someone like an axe accident
- If they don't flee the avenger of blood can kill them.
- The manslayer doesn't deserve to die.
- Why is the "y" capitalized in You in v.7?
- Why does it say "if" God gives the land that He promised their forefathers?
- It says if they keep His commandments and get the extra land they should create 3 more cities.
- These cities ensure innocent blood is not shed.
- If it is then the guilt of bloodshed would be on them.
- If anyone kills his neighbor intentionally and flees to one of the 3 cities, the elders shall cast that person out to the avenger of blood.
- They shouldn't pity the murderer but shall purge guilt of innocent blood.
- Do not move your neighbors land markers which have been there for a long time.
- A single witness is not enough to accuse someone.
- A charge can come about by 2 or 3 witnesses.
- If a malicious witness comes they shall stand before God and the priests and judges.
- The judges and priests will inquire to find out if the brother was accused falsely.
- If he IS a false witness, the false witness will receive the punishment instead of the accused.
- Others will hear and never bear false witness again.
- Well know quote "Your eye shall not pity. It shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot" Jesus later tweaks this verse saying to turn the other cheek
Isaiah 39
- Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah because he heard Hezekiah had recovered.
- Hezekiah welcomed them gladly.
- He showed Merodach his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his whole armory, all that was found in his storehouses.
- Isaiah asked Hezekiah what he said to them.
- Hezekiah said they came from far away in Babylon and he showed them everything.
- Isaiah said the kings of Babylon will come and take away everything and there shall be nothing left.
- Some of Hezekiah's own sons will be taken away as eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
- Hezekiah replied that what Isaiah said was good because there would be peace in Hezekiah's days.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Monday, December 21, 2009
Deuteronomy 18, Isaiah 38
Deuteronomy 18
- Levitical priests got their food from the Lord's food offering since they have no portion of their own.
- The Lord is the Levites' inheritance.
- The priest's dues from a sacrifice shall be the shoulder, the cheeks, and stomach of an ox or sheep.
- Firstfruits of grain, wine, oil, and fleece also go to the Levites.
- They should give to the Levites because God chose them to minister for the people.
- The Levites can move between town and shall receive an equal share
- He also receives from sales of his patrimony (The Hebrew meaning of this is uncertain)
- When they enter new lands they shouldn't follow ways of those places that are abominable.
- Abominable things include; sacrificing kids by burning them, sorcery, divination, fortune telling, necromancer, or talking to the dead.
- These things are the reason God is driving those people out of the land in the first place.
- Those people being ousted have done these things but God doesn't allow the Israelites to do those things.
- Moses tells them that God will raise up another like him to be a prophet.
- Moses reminds them of Horeb and how the people said they didn't want to hear God from the fire anymore.
- The Lord had even said there that the people were right.
- God will choose a brother to speak God's commandments to the people.
- Any prophet who speaks something God hasn't said OR speaks in the name of other God's will die.
- Moses tells they can tell if a prophet has spoken something God did NOT say because it won't come true.
- God says they shouldn't fear a false prophet.
Isaiah 38
- Hezekiah became very sick and Isaiah came to him.
- Isaiah told Hezekiah to get things in order because he was about to die.
- Hezekiah turned away and prayed for God to remember how he walked faithfully and he wept bitterly.
- God then spoke to Isaiah and told him to tell Hezekiah that He would add 15 years to Hezekiah's life.
- God also said that he'd defend Hezekiah's city against the King of Assyria.
- God gave them a sign; turning back the shadow on the sun dial of Ahaz back 10 steps.
- The sun turned back on the sun dial ten steps.
- The rest of this chapter is a letter from Hezekiah king of Judah after he recovered from his illness.
- Hezekiah recounts how he was to die in the middle of his days.
- He saw that his house would be rolled up and taken from him.
- His life was coming to an end and he calmed himself (also means cried out for help) until morning.
- His eyes were weary from looking upwards and he prayed for safety.
- He walked slowly because of the bitterness of his soul.
- Hezekiah asked God to restore his health.
- He had great bitterness for his own welfare.
- God delivered him in love.
- God has cast all of Hezekiah's sins behind His back.
- Sheol, Death, and those down in the pit without hope in God's faithfulness do not thank God.
- The living, like Hezekiah DO thank God and tell their children about God's faithfulness.
- Isaiah told Hezekiah to apply a cake of figs to the boils.
- Why did Hezekiah ask God for a sign to let him know to go up to the house of the Lord?
- Levitical priests got their food from the Lord's food offering since they have no portion of their own.
- The Lord is the Levites' inheritance.
- The priest's dues from a sacrifice shall be the shoulder, the cheeks, and stomach of an ox or sheep.
- Firstfruits of grain, wine, oil, and fleece also go to the Levites.
- They should give to the Levites because God chose them to minister for the people.
- The Levites can move between town and shall receive an equal share
- He also receives from sales of his patrimony (The Hebrew meaning of this is uncertain)
- When they enter new lands they shouldn't follow ways of those places that are abominable.
- Abominable things include; sacrificing kids by burning them, sorcery, divination, fortune telling, necromancer, or talking to the dead.
- These things are the reason God is driving those people out of the land in the first place.
- Those people being ousted have done these things but God doesn't allow the Israelites to do those things.
- Moses tells them that God will raise up another like him to be a prophet.
- Moses reminds them of Horeb and how the people said they didn't want to hear God from the fire anymore.
- The Lord had even said there that the people were right.
- God will choose a brother to speak God's commandments to the people.
- Any prophet who speaks something God hasn't said OR speaks in the name of other God's will die.
- Moses tells they can tell if a prophet has spoken something God did NOT say because it won't come true.
- God says they shouldn't fear a false prophet.
Isaiah 38
- Hezekiah became very sick and Isaiah came to him.
- Isaiah told Hezekiah to get things in order because he was about to die.
- Hezekiah turned away and prayed for God to remember how he walked faithfully and he wept bitterly.
- God then spoke to Isaiah and told him to tell Hezekiah that He would add 15 years to Hezekiah's life.
- God also said that he'd defend Hezekiah's city against the King of Assyria.
- God gave them a sign; turning back the shadow on the sun dial of Ahaz back 10 steps.
- The sun turned back on the sun dial ten steps.
- The rest of this chapter is a letter from Hezekiah king of Judah after he recovered from his illness.
- Hezekiah recounts how he was to die in the middle of his days.
- He saw that his house would be rolled up and taken from him.
- His life was coming to an end and he calmed himself (also means cried out for help) until morning.
- His eyes were weary from looking upwards and he prayed for safety.
- He walked slowly because of the bitterness of his soul.
- Hezekiah asked God to restore his health.
- He had great bitterness for his own welfare.
- God delivered him in love.
- God has cast all of Hezekiah's sins behind His back.
- Sheol, Death, and those down in the pit without hope in God's faithfulness do not thank God.
- The living, like Hezekiah DO thank God and tell their children about God's faithfulness.
- Isaiah told Hezekiah to apply a cake of figs to the boils.
- Why did Hezekiah ask God for a sign to let him know to go up to the house of the Lord?
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Deuteronomy 17, Isaiah 35
Deuteronomy 17
- It is an abomination to sacrifice an animal with a defect to God.
- If they find someone who is worshipping other gods, the sun or moon, or any other in heaven, they shall be brought to the gate and stoned to death.
- A person will be put to death by 2 or 3 witnesses but not by 1 witness alone.
- The witness shall cast the first stone then the rest to purge the evil from their midst.
- If a matter too difficult arises like a murder, legal right, or assault they shall go to where God tells them.
- They shall go to Levitical priests and judge to get a decision.
- They should do what the judge and priest says.
- They shouldn't turn from the decision made to the right or to the left.
- Those who change the verdict shall die.
- This will cause others to hear and fear and not act presumptuously again.
- This part talks about them wanting a king in the future like other nations around them.
- The king shall be appointed from their brothers.
- No foreigner may be appointed king.
- The king shall not have many horses or return to Egypt for horse because told them NOT to return to Egypt.
- The king shouldn't acquire many wives or much gold and silver because these things can turn the king's heart from God.
- The king shall copy this law into a book before the Levite priests.
- The king should read this book (Deuteronomy?) all the days of his life to learn to fear the Lord.
- His heart shouldn't be lifted above his brothers.
- He shouldn't turn from God's commandments so that his children and kingdom may last a long time in Israel.
Isaiah 35
- The ransomed shall be returned.
- The wilderness and dry land will rejoice and they shall be given the glory of Lebanon and the majesty of Carmel and Sharon.
- They shall see the glory and majesty of God.
- They should tell the weak and anxious not to fear because God will avenge them.
- God is coming to save them.
- The blind will see, the deaf will hear, the lame will leap, and the mute will speak. (foreshadowing of miracles Christ did?)
- The waters will break forth and water the dry land.
- Where the jackals had been there will be reeds and rushes again. (Place for water)
- A highway will be there called the Way of Holiness.
- The unclean and the fool shall not walk on it.
- Why does one translation say the fool will walk in it but the other translation seems to contradict it?
- The redeemed will walk there but the lion and beasts will not walk there.
- God's ransomed shall return with singing
- They will find everlasting joy and gladness and sorrow and sighing will "flee away"
- It is an abomination to sacrifice an animal with a defect to God.
- If they find someone who is worshipping other gods, the sun or moon, or any other in heaven, they shall be brought to the gate and stoned to death.
- A person will be put to death by 2 or 3 witnesses but not by 1 witness alone.
- The witness shall cast the first stone then the rest to purge the evil from their midst.
- If a matter too difficult arises like a murder, legal right, or assault they shall go to where God tells them.
- They shall go to Levitical priests and judge to get a decision.
- They should do what the judge and priest says.
- They shouldn't turn from the decision made to the right or to the left.
- Those who change the verdict shall die.
- This will cause others to hear and fear and not act presumptuously again.
- This part talks about them wanting a king in the future like other nations around them.
- The king shall be appointed from their brothers.
- No foreigner may be appointed king.
- The king shall not have many horses or return to Egypt for horse because told them NOT to return to Egypt.
- The king shouldn't acquire many wives or much gold and silver because these things can turn the king's heart from God.
- The king shall copy this law into a book before the Levite priests.
- The king should read this book (Deuteronomy?) all the days of his life to learn to fear the Lord.
- His heart shouldn't be lifted above his brothers.
- He shouldn't turn from God's commandments so that his children and kingdom may last a long time in Israel.
Isaiah 35
- The ransomed shall be returned.
- The wilderness and dry land will rejoice and they shall be given the glory of Lebanon and the majesty of Carmel and Sharon.
- They shall see the glory and majesty of God.
- They should tell the weak and anxious not to fear because God will avenge them.
- God is coming to save them.
- The blind will see, the deaf will hear, the lame will leap, and the mute will speak. (foreshadowing of miracles Christ did?)
- The waters will break forth and water the dry land.
- Where the jackals had been there will be reeds and rushes again. (Place for water)
- A highway will be there called the Way of Holiness.
- The unclean and the fool shall not walk on it.
- Why does one translation say the fool will walk in it but the other translation seems to contradict it?
- The redeemed will walk there but the lion and beasts will not walk there.
- God's ransomed shall return with singing
- They will find everlasting joy and gladness and sorrow and sighing will "flee away"
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Deuteronomy 16, Isaiah 34
Deuteronomy 16
- They were to remember the month of Abib and the Passover
- They needed to make a passover sacrifice from the flock at the place God chooses.
- They shall eat unleavened bread for 7 days because they left Egypt in haste.
- They shouldn't even have leaven to be seen in their area.
- They should always remember the day God brought them out of Egypt.
- No meat that they eat at night shall be left until morning on the first day.
- They shouldn't offer the Passover sacrifice in the towns they take over but in a place God will appoint.
- They shall offer the Passover sacrifice in the evening at sunset (because that's when they left Egypt)
- They should cook and eat it where God chooses.
- 6 days with no leaven and one the 7th day they shall do no work.
- They should count 7 weeks from when they first start the harvest.
- During the Feast of Weeks they shall offer a freewill offering.
- Everyone including slaves and sojourners shall shall rejoice and remember that they were all once slaves in Egypt.
- The Feast of Booths shall be kept for 7 days when they have gathered the produce.
- They should be altogether joyful that God has blessed the work of their hands.
- Three times a year all males shall appear before the Lord; at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths.
- They shouldn't come before the Lord empty handed, but should give to the Lord with what he has been blessed with.
- They should appoint judges and officials in each town to make righteous judgments.
- They should be partial or accept bribes.
- Bribes blind eyes of the wise and subverts righteousness.
- Justice should be followed.
- Justice will equal living and inheriting the land.
- They should plant any trees (especially an Asherah) near the altar.
- God also hates pillars.
Isaiah 34
- God is addressing all nations.
- God is furious and enrages against all nations and has devoted it to destruction.
- There will be corpses and blood flowing from mountains.
- Why will heaven rot away?
- The sky will roll up like a scroll.
- Who in heaven has been cut down by God's sword?
- God's judgment is now on Edom.
- The Lord's sword is filled with blood and fat from sacrifices.
- The Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah.
- Will the land be filled with animal blood or the blood of the people there?
- The land in Edom shall be gorged in fat.
- The Lord will take vengeance for Zion and Edom will burn like pitch forever.
- No one will even pass through Edom again.
- The hawk, porcupine, owl, and raven shall dwell there.
- God will draw a line of confusion and emptiness over it.
- Thorns, nettles, and thistles shall grow over it's strongholds.
- Wild animals; jackals, ostriches, hyenas, goats, and night bird shall rest there.
- The owls and hawks will nest there too.
- Why does it say to seek and read from the Book of the Lord that these animals will be there?
- God's spirit has gathered them there and given them that land forever.
- They were to remember the month of Abib and the Passover
- They needed to make a passover sacrifice from the flock at the place God chooses.
- They shall eat unleavened bread for 7 days because they left Egypt in haste.
- They shouldn't even have leaven to be seen in their area.
- They should always remember the day God brought them out of Egypt.
- No meat that they eat at night shall be left until morning on the first day.
- They shouldn't offer the Passover sacrifice in the towns they take over but in a place God will appoint.
- They shall offer the Passover sacrifice in the evening at sunset (because that's when they left Egypt)
- They should cook and eat it where God chooses.
- 6 days with no leaven and one the 7th day they shall do no work.
- They should count 7 weeks from when they first start the harvest.
- During the Feast of Weeks they shall offer a freewill offering.
- Everyone including slaves and sojourners shall shall rejoice and remember that they were all once slaves in Egypt.
- The Feast of Booths shall be kept for 7 days when they have gathered the produce.
- They should be altogether joyful that God has blessed the work of their hands.
- Three times a year all males shall appear before the Lord; at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths.
- They shouldn't come before the Lord empty handed, but should give to the Lord with what he has been blessed with.
- They should appoint judges and officials in each town to make righteous judgments.
- They should be partial or accept bribes.
- Bribes blind eyes of the wise and subverts righteousness.
- Justice should be followed.
- Justice will equal living and inheriting the land.
- They should plant any trees (especially an Asherah) near the altar.
- God also hates pillars.
Isaiah 34
- God is addressing all nations.
- God is furious and enrages against all nations and has devoted it to destruction.
- There will be corpses and blood flowing from mountains.
- Why will heaven rot away?
- The sky will roll up like a scroll.
- Who in heaven has been cut down by God's sword?
- God's judgment is now on Edom.
- The Lord's sword is filled with blood and fat from sacrifices.
- The Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah.
- Will the land be filled with animal blood or the blood of the people there?
- The land in Edom shall be gorged in fat.
- The Lord will take vengeance for Zion and Edom will burn like pitch forever.
- No one will even pass through Edom again.
- The hawk, porcupine, owl, and raven shall dwell there.
- God will draw a line of confusion and emptiness over it.
- Thorns, nettles, and thistles shall grow over it's strongholds.
- Wild animals; jackals, ostriches, hyenas, goats, and night bird shall rest there.
- The owls and hawks will nest there too.
- Why does it say to seek and read from the Book of the Lord that these animals will be there?
- God's spirit has gathered them there and given them that land forever.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Deuteronomy 15, Isaiah 33
Deuteronomy 15
- At the end of 7 years they shall grant a release.
- Every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor because God the Lord's release was proclaimed
- They may exact it on the foreigner but not their brothers.
- There will be no poor in the land God is giving them if the strictly obey God's commandments.
- God will bless them and they will lend to others but not borrow from anyone
- If that is true, why would they borrow from each other?
- This is because other nations won't rule over them.
- If anyone becomes poor they shall give without hardening their hearts.
- They shall lend whatever their brother needs.
- If in the 7th year, they don't help out their brother and he cries out to God, that is sin.
- They shall give freely without complaining because God will bless them for giving to the poor.
- There will never cease to be poor so God commanded them to open their hand to the poor.
- Why does it say there won't be poor in v.4 and then say there will never cease to be poor in v.11?
- If a Hebrew man or woman is sold to them they shall work for 6 years and be let free in the 7th year.
- When they are freed they shall be given supplies from the flock, the threshing floor, and the winepress.
- They should do this because God blessed them when they left Egypt.
- If the slave says he doesn't want to leave because he loves them, they shall punch a hole in the slave's ear and they will be his slave forever.
- They shouldn't be upset when freeing a slave because they slave worked for half the cost of a hired servant.
- How much did a slave make?
- The firstborn males in herds and flocks shall be dedicated to God.
- They shouldn't use the firstborn for work or wool.
- They shall it the firstborn before God.
- If the firstborn has any blemishes it shall not be sacrificed to God.
- The clean and unclean may eat it.
- They shouldn't eat its blood but pour it out on the ground.
Isaiah 33
- Who is the "destroyer" that this verse speaks of?
- The destroyer will be destroyed and the betrayer, betrayed.
- This verse asks God to be gracious and arm every morning.
- When God lifts Himself up the nations scatter.
- The Lord on high is exalted and fills Zion with righteousness and justice.
- He is the stability in these times.
- God gives salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
- The fear of God is Zion's treasure.
- Their heroes cry and traveling ceases.
- Covenants are broken and the land mourns.
- Lebanon is confounded and withers away.
- Sharon is a desert.
- Bashan and Caramel shake.
- In the midst of this chaos, God will raise Himself up.
- The people will be burned like chaff.
- Those near and far should acknowledge God's might.
- The sinners and godless of Zion tremble with fear.
- They know they cannot dwell among the consuming fire.
- The ones who can stand walk in righteousness and speaks uprightly, despises oppression, won't take a bribe, stops bloodshed, doesn't look on evil.
- That righteous person will stand on high, his bread will be with God.
- Their eyes will behold the beauty of their king.
- Insolence and not understanding people will end.
- They will see Zion and see Jerusalem without trouble.
- The Lord in His majesty will be for us in a place ships cannot sail to.
- The LORD is our judge, lawgiver, and king who will save us.
- In that time the spoil will be divide among them.
- No one there will be sick and they will be forgiven of their iniquities!
- At the end of 7 years they shall grant a release.
- Every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor because God the Lord's release was proclaimed
- They may exact it on the foreigner but not their brothers.
- There will be no poor in the land God is giving them if the strictly obey God's commandments.
- God will bless them and they will lend to others but not borrow from anyone
- If that is true, why would they borrow from each other?
- This is because other nations won't rule over them.
- If anyone becomes poor they shall give without hardening their hearts.
- They shall lend whatever their brother needs.
- If in the 7th year, they don't help out their brother and he cries out to God, that is sin.
- They shall give freely without complaining because God will bless them for giving to the poor.
- There will never cease to be poor so God commanded them to open their hand to the poor.
- Why does it say there won't be poor in v.4 and then say there will never cease to be poor in v.11?
- If a Hebrew man or woman is sold to them they shall work for 6 years and be let free in the 7th year.
- When they are freed they shall be given supplies from the flock, the threshing floor, and the winepress.
- They should do this because God blessed them when they left Egypt.
- If the slave says he doesn't want to leave because he loves them, they shall punch a hole in the slave's ear and they will be his slave forever.
- They shouldn't be upset when freeing a slave because they slave worked for half the cost of a hired servant.
- How much did a slave make?
- The firstborn males in herds and flocks shall be dedicated to God.
- They shouldn't use the firstborn for work or wool.
- They shall it the firstborn before God.
- If the firstborn has any blemishes it shall not be sacrificed to God.
- The clean and unclean may eat it.
- They shouldn't eat its blood but pour it out on the ground.
Isaiah 33
- Who is the "destroyer" that this verse speaks of?
- The destroyer will be destroyed and the betrayer, betrayed.
- This verse asks God to be gracious and arm every morning.
- When God lifts Himself up the nations scatter.
- The Lord on high is exalted and fills Zion with righteousness and justice.
- He is the stability in these times.
- God gives salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
- The fear of God is Zion's treasure.
- Their heroes cry and traveling ceases.
- Covenants are broken and the land mourns.
- Lebanon is confounded and withers away.
- Sharon is a desert.
- Bashan and Caramel shake.
- In the midst of this chaos, God will raise Himself up.
- The people will be burned like chaff.
- Those near and far should acknowledge God's might.
- The sinners and godless of Zion tremble with fear.
- They know they cannot dwell among the consuming fire.
- The ones who can stand walk in righteousness and speaks uprightly, despises oppression, won't take a bribe, stops bloodshed, doesn't look on evil.
- That righteous person will stand on high, his bread will be with God.
- Their eyes will behold the beauty of their king.
- Insolence and not understanding people will end.
- They will see Zion and see Jerusalem without trouble.
- The Lord in His majesty will be for us in a place ships cannot sail to.
- The LORD is our judge, lawgiver, and king who will save us.
- In that time the spoil will be divide among them.
- No one there will be sick and they will be forgiven of their iniquities!
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Deuteronomy 14, Isaiah 32
Deuteronomy 14
- It starts off by reminding them that they are sons of God (before listing what they should and shouldn't do)
- They shouldn't cut themselves or shave their heads for the dead.
- They are God's treasured and chosen people out of the whole earth.
- This chapter lists food restrictions.
- They are allowed to eat; deer, gazelle, the roebuck, wild goat, the ibex (addax), the antelope, and the mountain sheep. (Any animal with a two parted cloven hoof that chews the cud.)
- The animals that chew the cud with no parted hoof NOT to be eaten are: camel, hare, rock badger.
- The pig parts the hoof but doesn't chew the cud so shall NOT be eaten.
- Those animals shall not be eaten or touched.
- In the water they can eat anything with fins and scales, but if it doesn't have fins and scales it should NOT be eaten.
- They may eat clean birds but these they may NOT eat; eagle, bearded vulture, black vulture, kites, falcons, ravens, ostriches, the nighthawk, seagulls, hawks, the little owl, short-eared owl, barn owl, tawny owl, carrion vulture, cormorant, stork, heron, hoopoe, or the bat an all winged insects.
- They may NOT eat anything that died naturally, but may give it to the sojourner or he may sell it to a foreigner.
- They were NOT to boil a young goat in its mother's milk either.
- They were to tithe for all crops grown each year.
- They should eat the tithe of their grain and firstborn livestock so that they may fear the Lord always.
- How does this make them fear the Lord?
- If carrying the tithe to God's chosen land is too much, they may turn the tithe food/livestock into money and carry that.
- Why are they able to spending their tithe on whatever they want like food or strong drink?
- They shall eat there and rejoice with their household.
- The Levites should not be neglected
- At the end of every 3 years, they should bring the tithe of their produce into their towns for the Levites, sojourners, fatherless, and the widow.
- Didn't they spend their tithe money on food and strong drink?
- When they do this, God will bless them in all that their hands do.
Isaiah 32
- The king will reign in righteousness and the prince rule in justice (Is this referring to God and Christ?)
- They shall be like a shelter from a storm or like water in a dry place (desert)
- Then people will see and hear and give their attention.
- The hearty of the hasty with understand and those who stutter shall speak clearly.
- The fool will not be called noble nor the scoundrel called honorable.
- The fool speak folly and his heart is busy with iniquity, ungodliness, and he utters errors about who God is.
- The fool leave those without food hungry and the thirsty without drink.
- The scoundrel is evil and plans wicked to ruin the poor and needy by lying to them.
- "But he who is noble plans noble things and on noble things he stands" (v.8)
- Isaiah tells the resting women to rise up with their complacent daughters.
- In a little over a year they will shutter because the grape and fruit harvest will NOT come.
- Isaiah tells the complacent to shudder and dress in sack cloth for the "pleasant" fields and soil which will grow briar's and thorns.
- The palace will be forsaken and the populous city will be deserted.
- The watchtower will be a place for animals until "the Spirit is poured upon us from on high" (a possible connection to Acts?)
- The wilderness will then be fruitful again and the field be called a forest
- Then justice will dwell in the wilderness and righteousness live in the fruitful fields.
- Righteousness's effect will be peace, quietness, and trust (security) forever.
- God's people will live in peace, security, and quiet resting places.
- It will hail when the forest falls and the city will be laid low.
- Why this negative thing in the positive section of peace and security?
- Happy are the people who sow next to the waters and let their oxen and donkeys range free.
- It starts off by reminding them that they are sons of God (before listing what they should and shouldn't do)
- They shouldn't cut themselves or shave their heads for the dead.
- They are God's treasured and chosen people out of the whole earth.
- This chapter lists food restrictions.
- They are allowed to eat; deer, gazelle, the roebuck, wild goat, the ibex (addax), the antelope, and the mountain sheep. (Any animal with a two parted cloven hoof that chews the cud.)
- The animals that chew the cud with no parted hoof NOT to be eaten are: camel, hare, rock badger.
- The pig parts the hoof but doesn't chew the cud so shall NOT be eaten.
- Those animals shall not be eaten or touched.
- In the water they can eat anything with fins and scales, but if it doesn't have fins and scales it should NOT be eaten.
- They may eat clean birds but these they may NOT eat; eagle, bearded vulture, black vulture, kites, falcons, ravens, ostriches, the nighthawk, seagulls, hawks, the little owl, short-eared owl, barn owl, tawny owl, carrion vulture, cormorant, stork, heron, hoopoe, or the bat an all winged insects.
- They may NOT eat anything that died naturally, but may give it to the sojourner or he may sell it to a foreigner.
- They were NOT to boil a young goat in its mother's milk either.
- They were to tithe for all crops grown each year.
- They should eat the tithe of their grain and firstborn livestock so that they may fear the Lord always.
- How does this make them fear the Lord?
- If carrying the tithe to God's chosen land is too much, they may turn the tithe food/livestock into money and carry that.
- Why are they able to spending their tithe on whatever they want like food or strong drink?
- They shall eat there and rejoice with their household.
- The Levites should not be neglected
- At the end of every 3 years, they should bring the tithe of their produce into their towns for the Levites, sojourners, fatherless, and the widow.
- Didn't they spend their tithe money on food and strong drink?
- When they do this, God will bless them in all that their hands do.
Isaiah 32
- The king will reign in righteousness and the prince rule in justice (Is this referring to God and Christ?)
- They shall be like a shelter from a storm or like water in a dry place (desert)
- Then people will see and hear and give their attention.
- The hearty of the hasty with understand and those who stutter shall speak clearly.
- The fool will not be called noble nor the scoundrel called honorable.
- The fool speak folly and his heart is busy with iniquity, ungodliness, and he utters errors about who God is.
- The fool leave those without food hungry and the thirsty without drink.
- The scoundrel is evil and plans wicked to ruin the poor and needy by lying to them.
- "But he who is noble plans noble things and on noble things he stands" (v.8)
- Isaiah tells the resting women to rise up with their complacent daughters.
- In a little over a year they will shutter because the grape and fruit harvest will NOT come.
- Isaiah tells the complacent to shudder and dress in sack cloth for the "pleasant" fields and soil which will grow briar's and thorns.
- The palace will be forsaken and the populous city will be deserted.
- The watchtower will be a place for animals until "the Spirit is poured upon us from on high" (a possible connection to Acts?)
- The wilderness will then be fruitful again and the field be called a forest
- Then justice will dwell in the wilderness and righteousness live in the fruitful fields.
- Righteousness's effect will be peace, quietness, and trust (security) forever.
- God's people will live in peace, security, and quiet resting places.
- It will hail when the forest falls and the city will be laid low.
- Why this negative thing in the positive section of peace and security?
- Happy are the people who sow next to the waters and let their oxen and donkeys range free.
Clarifying My Quiet Time Plan
I know a few of you check out my blog from time-to-time and I hope any notes you've read here have been helpful. My original plan was to read through the Bible in a year using For the Love of God by D.A. Carson and take notes this time. I started off well, but when taking notes and seeking to truly understand the daily readings it was taking over an hour in the mornings. Two weeks ago, I finished up Revelations and 2 Corinthians thus ending the OT. Now I still need to do several OT books. I paused in Deuteronomy with chapter 13 and in Isaiah on chapter 31. Since I realize now that my D. A. Carson plan is way off, my new plan is to wrap up Isaiah and Deuteronomy and then wrap up the missing OT books. Just for my personal info; I still have Joshua, Hosea, Obadiah, Habakkuk, Judges, Ruth, 1 & 2 Samuel, 1&2 Kings, 1&2 Chronicles, Psalms, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Joel, Amos, Micah, Nahum, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.
Let the final leg begin!
Let the final leg begin!
Monday, November 9, 2009
Revelations 22
Revelations 22
- The angel showed John the river of life which flows from God's throne through the city.
- The tree of life is on both sides of the river
- Why isn't "tree" plural?
- The tree yield 12 kinds of fruit, a different one each month (so time still works during this time)
- The leaves of the tree were for healing the nations.
- There is no longer anything accursed, but God will be in it all.
- His servants will worship Him and His name will be on their foreheads.
- There will be no more night and God will be their light.
- The angel told John that these wards are trustworthy and true.
- God sent the angel to show John what must soon take place.
- Whoever keeps the words of the prophecy of this book will be blessed.
- John again states that when he saw these things he fell down to worship the angel who told him not to do that.
- The angel was with John and the others and they were to worship God.
- The angel told John not to seal up this prophecy for the time was near.
- The wicked will still be wicked and the righteous still do righteous things.
- He (the angel?) says he will soon repay everyone for what they have done. He is the Alpha and Omega (Is this the angel or God speaking now?)
- Blessed are those who wash their robes (or keep His commandments)
- Those who do will right will enter the city and have access to the tree of life.
- Outside are the dog; those who do evil and love to practice falsehood.
- Jesus says He sent His angel to tell these things to the churches.
- Jesus says He is the root and descendant of David, the bright morning star
- The Spirit and the Bride say come to those who want to drink of the water of life without price
- The warning - anyone who adds to this book, will have plagues added to them.
- If anyone takes away from this book, God will take away that person's share of tree of life and the holy city
- Jesus says, "Surely I am coming soon."
- John ends by saying " The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all (or all of the saints). Amen"
- The angel showed John the river of life which flows from God's throne through the city.
- The tree of life is on both sides of the river
- Why isn't "tree" plural?
- The tree yield 12 kinds of fruit, a different one each month (so time still works during this time)
- The leaves of the tree were for healing the nations.
- There is no longer anything accursed, but God will be in it all.
- His servants will worship Him and His name will be on their foreheads.
- There will be no more night and God will be their light.
- The angel told John that these wards are trustworthy and true.
- God sent the angel to show John what must soon take place.
- Whoever keeps the words of the prophecy of this book will be blessed.
- John again states that when he saw these things he fell down to worship the angel who told him not to do that.
- The angel was with John and the others and they were to worship God.
- The angel told John not to seal up this prophecy for the time was near.
- The wicked will still be wicked and the righteous still do righteous things.
- He (the angel?) says he will soon repay everyone for what they have done. He is the Alpha and Omega (Is this the angel or God speaking now?)
- Blessed are those who wash their robes (or keep His commandments)
- Those who do will right will enter the city and have access to the tree of life.
- Outside are the dog; those who do evil and love to practice falsehood.
- Jesus says He sent His angel to tell these things to the churches.
- Jesus says He is the root and descendant of David, the bright morning star
- The Spirit and the Bride say come to those who want to drink of the water of life without price
- The warning - anyone who adds to this book, will have plagues added to them.
- If anyone takes away from this book, God will take away that person's share of tree of life and the holy city
- Jesus says, "Surely I am coming soon."
- John ends by saying " The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all (or all of the saints). Amen"
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Revelations 21
Revelations 21
- the old heaven and earth passed away and were replaced by new ones.
- The sea was no more.
- John saw the new Jerusalem coming down from heaven like a bride for her husband.
- The voice from the throne said this was a dwelling place of God with man.
- God will now dwell with man and they will be His people.
- God will wipe away every tear and death will be no more.
- There will be no crying or pain.
- The one on the throne said He was making everything new.
- He told John to write this down.
- He said to John, "I am the Alpha and Omega and He is giving water of to people without payment.
- The one who conquers will "be God's son".
- But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will be thrown into lake of fire.
- One of the 7 bowl holding angels spoke to John, and wanted to show him Christ's bride.
- The angel took John in Spirit to a high mountain to see New Jerusalem.
- The city looked like clear jasper.
- Why did it have high walls? Aren't they for protection?
- It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed.
- There were 3 gates at each direction; N,E,S,W.
- And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb
- The angel had a golden ruler to measure the city.
- He measured the city with his rod, 12,000 stadia (1,380 miles). It was a perfect cube.
- The wall was 144 cubits high.
- The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of jewel.
- The first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst.
- Each gate was made from a single pearl and the street were made of gold but transparent.
- There was no temple in the city because the temple is God Himself.
- The glory of God was the light of the city and Jesus was its lamp.
- The nations will now walk in God's glory.
- The gates will never need to be shut and there will be no night.
- They will bring honor and glory into the city.
- Nothing detestable will ever enter it, but only what is in the Lamb's Book of Life.
- the old heaven and earth passed away and were replaced by new ones.
- The sea was no more.
- John saw the new Jerusalem coming down from heaven like a bride for her husband.
- The voice from the throne said this was a dwelling place of God with man.
- God will now dwell with man and they will be His people.
- God will wipe away every tear and death will be no more.
- There will be no crying or pain.
- The one on the throne said He was making everything new.
- He told John to write this down.
- He said to John, "I am the Alpha and Omega and He is giving water of to people without payment.
- The one who conquers will "be God's son".
- But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will be thrown into lake of fire.
- One of the 7 bowl holding angels spoke to John, and wanted to show him Christ's bride.
- The angel took John in Spirit to a high mountain to see New Jerusalem.
- The city looked like clear jasper.
- Why did it have high walls? Aren't they for protection?
- It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed.
- There were 3 gates at each direction; N,E,S,W.
- And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb
- The angel had a golden ruler to measure the city.
- He measured the city with his rod, 12,000 stadia (1,380 miles). It was a perfect cube.
- The wall was 144 cubits high.
- The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of jewel.
- The first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst.
- Each gate was made from a single pearl and the street were made of gold but transparent.
- There was no temple in the city because the temple is God Himself.
- The glory of God was the light of the city and Jesus was its lamp.
- The nations will now walk in God's glory.
- The gates will never need to be shut and there will be no night.
- They will bring honor and glory into the city.
- Nothing detestable will ever enter it, but only what is in the Lamb's Book of Life.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Revelations 19 - 20
Revelations 19
- John heard loud voices shouting, "Hallelujah, salvation and glory belong to God whose judgments of the prostitute are true and just."
- God avenged the blood of the saints and immorality she brought.
- They again shouted her smoke goes up forever.
- The 24 elders fell and worshipped the one on the throne.
- The one on the throne (Jesus?) said praise God all who fear Him; great and small
- He heard the voice of the multitude say, "Hallelujah because God reigns so we should rejoice and give Him glory."
- The marriage of the Lamb to His bride has come.
- It was granted that she would dress in pure, bright white.
- Her fine linens are the righteous deeds of the saints.
- The angel told John to write that those invited to the wedding are blessed.
- These words of God are true.
- John's response was to fall down and worship the angel, but the angel told him not to do that.
- The angel said he was a fellow servant of Jesus.
- John then saw heaven open up and a white horse come out.
- The rider was called Faithful and True.
- He makes war and judgments in righteousness.
- His eyes are like fire and He wears many crowns and has a name that only He knows.
- He wears a robe dipped/sprinkled with blood.
- He is called the Word of God (John 1)
- The armies of heaven wore pure white and followed Him on white horses.
- A sharp sword comes from His mouth to strike down the nations and rule them with an iron rod.
- He treads God's wine press of His wrath.
- King of Kings and Lord of Lords is written on His robe and thigh.
- John saw an angel in the sun who told the birds to eat the flesh of the kings, captains, soldiers on horses, slaves and free and the armies of earth.
- The beast and the armies of earth came out to meet Him in battle.
- The beast was captured along with his prophet who did signs to trick people to worship idols.
- Those two were thrown alive into a lake of fire and sulfur.
- Christ's tongue cut down the beast's armies and the birds gorged themselves.
Revelations 20
- An angel came from heaven with a key to the bottomless pit and a long chain.
- The angel bound Satan (the dragon and serpent) and bound Satan for 1,000 years.
- For 1,000 years Satan could effect no one, but then he had to be released.
- Why did Satan have to be released?
- John saw thrones of those given authority to judge.
- John saw the souls of those beheaded and who did NOT follow the beast and they came and reigned with Christ for 1,000 years. (first resurrection)
- The rest of the dead didn't come alive until AFTER the 1,000 years.
- Blessed and holy are those in the first resurrection.
- The second death has no power and they will reign with Christ for 1,000 years.
- Satan was released after 1,000 years and he will deceive God and Magog and gather them together. Their number is like the sands of the sea.
- Satan's army was consumed by fire from heaven and Satan was thrown into the Lake of Fire with the beast and false prophet to be tormented day and night forever.
- John saw a great white throne and Him seated on it.
- The earth and sky fled from His presence.
- How could no place be found for earth and sky?
- John saw all the dead great and small standing before the throne where the books were.
- What were the first set of books for?
- Another book, the Book of Life, was opened and each person was judged by what they had done.
- The sea, Death and Hades, each gave up their dead to be judged.
- Death and Hades were then thrown into the Lake of Fire
- Who were Death and Hades and what was their rule before this time?
- The lake of fire was the second death.
- Anyone whose names was NOT in the Book of Life was thrown into the lake of fire.
- John heard loud voices shouting, "Hallelujah, salvation and glory belong to God whose judgments of the prostitute are true and just."
- God avenged the blood of the saints and immorality she brought.
- They again shouted her smoke goes up forever.
- The 24 elders fell and worshipped the one on the throne.
- The one on the throne (Jesus?) said praise God all who fear Him; great and small
- He heard the voice of the multitude say, "Hallelujah because God reigns so we should rejoice and give Him glory."
- The marriage of the Lamb to His bride has come.
- It was granted that she would dress in pure, bright white.
- Her fine linens are the righteous deeds of the saints.
- The angel told John to write that those invited to the wedding are blessed.
- These words of God are true.
- John's response was to fall down and worship the angel, but the angel told him not to do that.
- The angel said he was a fellow servant of Jesus.
- John then saw heaven open up and a white horse come out.
- The rider was called Faithful and True.
- He makes war and judgments in righteousness.
- His eyes are like fire and He wears many crowns and has a name that only He knows.
- He wears a robe dipped/sprinkled with blood.
- He is called the Word of God (John 1)
- The armies of heaven wore pure white and followed Him on white horses.
- A sharp sword comes from His mouth to strike down the nations and rule them with an iron rod.
- He treads God's wine press of His wrath.
- King of Kings and Lord of Lords is written on His robe and thigh.
- John saw an angel in the sun who told the birds to eat the flesh of the kings, captains, soldiers on horses, slaves and free and the armies of earth.
- The beast and the armies of earth came out to meet Him in battle.
- The beast was captured along with his prophet who did signs to trick people to worship idols.
- Those two were thrown alive into a lake of fire and sulfur.
- Christ's tongue cut down the beast's armies and the birds gorged themselves.
Revelations 20
- An angel came from heaven with a key to the bottomless pit and a long chain.
- The angel bound Satan (the dragon and serpent) and bound Satan for 1,000 years.
- For 1,000 years Satan could effect no one, but then he had to be released.
- Why did Satan have to be released?
- John saw thrones of those given authority to judge.
- John saw the souls of those beheaded and who did NOT follow the beast and they came and reigned with Christ for 1,000 years. (first resurrection)
- The rest of the dead didn't come alive until AFTER the 1,000 years.
- Blessed and holy are those in the first resurrection.
- The second death has no power and they will reign with Christ for 1,000 years.
- Satan was released after 1,000 years and he will deceive God and Magog and gather them together. Their number is like the sands of the sea.
- Satan's army was consumed by fire from heaven and Satan was thrown into the Lake of Fire with the beast and false prophet to be tormented day and night forever.
- John saw a great white throne and Him seated on it.
- The earth and sky fled from His presence.
- How could no place be found for earth and sky?
- John saw all the dead great and small standing before the throne where the books were.
- What were the first set of books for?
- Another book, the Book of Life, was opened and each person was judged by what they had done.
- The sea, Death and Hades, each gave up their dead to be judged.
- Death and Hades were then thrown into the Lake of Fire
- Who were Death and Hades and what was their rule before this time?
- The lake of fire was the second death.
- Anyone whose names was NOT in the Book of Life was thrown into the lake of fire.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Revelations 17 and 18
Revelations 17
- One of the 7 angels came to John to show him the judgement of the great prostitute.
- She sits on many water and has committed sexual immorality with many kings.
- They have become drunk on her immorality like a drunk on wine.
- The Spirit took John into the wilderness where the woman was on a scarlet beast.
- Blasphemous names were written on the beast and it had seven heads and ten horns.
- She was dressed in scarlet and purple and adorned with jewels.
- She held a cup full of her immoralities and abominations.
- A name of mystery was written on her forehead, "Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations"
- John saw a woman drunk on the blood of the saint and martyrs of Jesus.
- John marveled at the woman and the angel asked him why.
- What does it mean the beast was and is not ( sounds like it counters God is was, is and is to come)?
- The beast is about to arise from the bottomless pit and reap destruction.
- Those not in the book of life will marvel at the beast.
- The 7 heads are 7 mountains, and also 7 kings (5 of which have already fallen, one is, and one will come later).
- That one will come and remain for only a short time.
- The beast is the 8th, but belongs to the 7 and is goes to destruction.
- The 10 horns are kings who have not yet received their royal power.
- They will receive power for 1 hour along with the beast.
- They are of one mind and will make war on the Lamb.
- The Lamb will conquer them and those with Him are called "chosen and faithful"
- The "waters" around the prostitute are the multitudes of people and languages.
- Why will the 10 kings and the beast hate the prostitute?
- They will make her naked and burn her with fire.
- God has planned that they be of one mind and hand their power over to the beast until His words are fulfilled.
- The woman = great city that has dominion over kings of earth.
Revelations 18
- John saw another angel who had great power whose glory made earth bright.
- The angel said Babylon has fallen and become a place for demons, unclean spirits and animals
- All nations have drunk her passion of sexual immorality.
- Kings and merchants have grown rich from being immoral with her.
- Another voice told his people to come away from her so they won't take part in her sins.
- God has remembered her sins and she will be paid back double
- For all her luxurious living she will have equal torment given to her.
- She boasts and for that reason she will see mourning and famine and death all in the same day.
- Those who were immoral with her will mourn at her burning.
- They will mourn her loss (She is Babylon)
- The merchants weep because no one now buys their cargo.
- Their cargo is many things; valuables, clothes, wood, bronze, scents, livestock, slaves and human souls (human lives).
- They will lose all of these splendors and delicacies.
- These merchants who gained wealth from her will stand far off and weep.
- All her wealth is taken away in a single hour.
- The seafarers stood far off and mourned too.
- Heaven will rejoice with the saints and prophets over God's judgment of her.
- The angel threw a huge stone into the sea and said that is the way Babylon will go too.
- It won't be found anymore; no light, no sounds, no voices, no marriages, will be found there because the nations were deceived by her sorceror and the fact that she killed the saints there.
- One of the 7 angels came to John to show him the judgement of the great prostitute.
- She sits on many water and has committed sexual immorality with many kings.
- They have become drunk on her immorality like a drunk on wine.
- The Spirit took John into the wilderness where the woman was on a scarlet beast.
- Blasphemous names were written on the beast and it had seven heads and ten horns.
- She was dressed in scarlet and purple and adorned with jewels.
- She held a cup full of her immoralities and abominations.
- A name of mystery was written on her forehead, "Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations"
- John saw a woman drunk on the blood of the saint and martyrs of Jesus.
- John marveled at the woman and the angel asked him why.
- What does it mean the beast was and is not ( sounds like it counters God is was, is and is to come)?
- The beast is about to arise from the bottomless pit and reap destruction.
- Those not in the book of life will marvel at the beast.
- The 7 heads are 7 mountains, and also 7 kings (5 of which have already fallen, one is, and one will come later).
- That one will come and remain for only a short time.
- The beast is the 8th, but belongs to the 7 and is goes to destruction.
- The 10 horns are kings who have not yet received their royal power.
- They will receive power for 1 hour along with the beast.
- They are of one mind and will make war on the Lamb.
- The Lamb will conquer them and those with Him are called "chosen and faithful"
- The "waters" around the prostitute are the multitudes of people and languages.
- Why will the 10 kings and the beast hate the prostitute?
- They will make her naked and burn her with fire.
- God has planned that they be of one mind and hand their power over to the beast until His words are fulfilled.
- The woman = great city that has dominion over kings of earth.
Revelations 18
- John saw another angel who had great power whose glory made earth bright.
- The angel said Babylon has fallen and become a place for demons, unclean spirits and animals
- All nations have drunk her passion of sexual immorality.
- Kings and merchants have grown rich from being immoral with her.
- Another voice told his people to come away from her so they won't take part in her sins.
- God has remembered her sins and she will be paid back double
- For all her luxurious living she will have equal torment given to her.
- She boasts and for that reason she will see mourning and famine and death all in the same day.
- Those who were immoral with her will mourn at her burning.
- They will mourn her loss (She is Babylon)
- The merchants weep because no one now buys their cargo.
- Their cargo is many things; valuables, clothes, wood, bronze, scents, livestock, slaves and human souls (human lives).
- They will lose all of these splendors and delicacies.
- These merchants who gained wealth from her will stand far off and weep.
- All her wealth is taken away in a single hour.
- The seafarers stood far off and mourned too.
- Heaven will rejoice with the saints and prophets over God's judgment of her.
- The angel threw a huge stone into the sea and said that is the way Babylon will go too.
- It won't be found anymore; no light, no sounds, no voices, no marriages, will be found there because the nations were deceived by her sorceror and the fact that she killed the saints there.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Revelations 14 - 16
Revelations 14
- On Mount Zion the Lamb stood with the 144,000 who had God's name written on their foreheads.
- John heard a voice like thunder, a river, and a harpist.
- The 144,000 were singing a new song before the throne, the 4 creatures and the elders.
- No one but the 144,000 could learn this new song.
- The 144,000 were blameless, virgins, followed the Lamb everywhere and were redeemed from mankind as the first fruits.
- John saw another angel proclaiming an eternal gospel saying, "Fear God because his judgment has come so He should be worshipped.
- A second angel said fallen is Babylon who has made other nations commit sexual immorality.
- A third angel said that anyone who follows the beast will face God's wrath.
- His wrath will be in a cup of His anger and those people will be tormented with fire in the presence of the holy angels and the Lamb.
- Does the phrase "holy angels" mean anything significant?
- The smoke of their torment will go on forever.
- The saints should press on in endurance.
- A voice from heaven told John to write, "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”
- How will these maurters be more blessed than previous ones?
- John saw a white cloud with the son of man with a golden crown and sickle.
- Another angel came out of the temple telling the one on the cloud to reap a harvest.
- The one on the cloud swung his sickle and reaped a harvest from earth.
- Another angel came out of the temple. He also had a sharp sickle.
- Another angel came out who had authority over fire and spoke to the sickle angel.
- He told the first to use sickle to gather ripe grapes from the earth.
- What did each sickle weilding angel reap exactly?
- The second angel gathered the grapes and put them in the "wine press of God's wrath."
- The blood flowed from the wine press and flowed as high as a horse's bridle (4-5 feet?)
- It flowed for 1,600 stadia (184 miles)
Revelations 15
- Another sign in heaven was the 7 angels who had the 7 plagues.
- This was the last of God's wrath.
- John saw a "sea of glass mixed with fire"
- John saw those who had conquered the beast standing beside the glass lake holding harps.
- How/when was the beast defeated?
- The were singing the song of Moses.
- Was this a song about Moses in that day or a song written by Moses when he was alive?
- God's deed are great and amazing and just and true.
- Who won't fear God and give Him glory.
- All nations will worship Him when His righteous acts have been revealed.
- The sanctuary of the tent (tabernacle) of witness was opened.
- The seven angels with 7 plagues came out of there.
- The were clothed in pure, white linen with golden sashes.
- One of the 4 creatures gave the angels the 7 bowls of God's wrath.
- The sanctuary was filled with smoke from God's glory and power.
- No one could enter the sanctuary until the 7 plagues were finished.
Revelations 16
- A loud voice told the 7 angels to pour out their bowls.
1) First Plague - harmful sores on people who worshiped the beast and had his mark.
2) Second Plague - the sea turned to blood and everything in it died.
3) Third Plague - turned the rivers into blood and said, "Just is God who brought these judgments , for God has given them blood to drink for the saints' blood they shed.
- The altar spoke reiterated that God's judgments are "true and just".
4) Fourth Plague - the sun was allowed to scorch people, but the people refused to turn to God and cursed Him instead.
5) Fifth Plague - turned Beast's throne into darkness, but people gnawed their tongues and cursed God for their sores.
6) Sixth Plague - The Euphrates dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the east.
- Out of the mouths of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet came 3 unclean spirits like frogs
- They are demonic spirits gathering kings to battle against the Lord.
- This quote seems to echo what Jesus said about the end coming like a thief in the night.
- They assembled their army at a place in Hebrew is called Armageddon.
7) Seventh Plague - threw his bowl into the air and a voice said, "It is done!"
- instantly there was thunder, lightning, and earthquakes.
- the earthquake was much bigger than anything since man had been on earth.
- The great city was spilt in 3 and the cities of nations fell.
- God remember Babylon and made her drink the cup of His wrath.
- Every island and mountain fled and were no more.
- 100 pound hail stones fell to earth.
- The people still responded by cursing God.
- On Mount Zion the Lamb stood with the 144,000 who had God's name written on their foreheads.
- John heard a voice like thunder, a river, and a harpist.
- The 144,000 were singing a new song before the throne, the 4 creatures and the elders.
- No one but the 144,000 could learn this new song.
- The 144,000 were blameless, virgins, followed the Lamb everywhere and were redeemed from mankind as the first fruits.
- John saw another angel proclaiming an eternal gospel saying, "Fear God because his judgment has come so He should be worshipped.
- A second angel said fallen is Babylon who has made other nations commit sexual immorality.
- A third angel said that anyone who follows the beast will face God's wrath.
- His wrath will be in a cup of His anger and those people will be tormented with fire in the presence of the holy angels and the Lamb.
- Does the phrase "holy angels" mean anything significant?
- The smoke of their torment will go on forever.
- The saints should press on in endurance.
- A voice from heaven told John to write, "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”
- How will these maurters be more blessed than previous ones?
- John saw a white cloud with the son of man with a golden crown and sickle.
- Another angel came out of the temple telling the one on the cloud to reap a harvest.
- The one on the cloud swung his sickle and reaped a harvest from earth.
- Another angel came out of the temple. He also had a sharp sickle.
- Another angel came out who had authority over fire and spoke to the sickle angel.
- He told the first to use sickle to gather ripe grapes from the earth.
- What did each sickle weilding angel reap exactly?
- The second angel gathered the grapes and put them in the "wine press of God's wrath."
- The blood flowed from the wine press and flowed as high as a horse's bridle (4-5 feet?)
- It flowed for 1,600 stadia (184 miles)
Revelations 15
- Another sign in heaven was the 7 angels who had the 7 plagues.
- This was the last of God's wrath.
- John saw a "sea of glass mixed with fire"
- John saw those who had conquered the beast standing beside the glass lake holding harps.
- How/when was the beast defeated?
- The were singing the song of Moses.
- Was this a song about Moses in that day or a song written by Moses when he was alive?
- God's deed are great and amazing and just and true.
- Who won't fear God and give Him glory.
- All nations will worship Him when His righteous acts have been revealed.
- The sanctuary of the tent (tabernacle) of witness was opened.
- The seven angels with 7 plagues came out of there.
- The were clothed in pure, white linen with golden sashes.
- One of the 4 creatures gave the angels the 7 bowls of God's wrath.
- The sanctuary was filled with smoke from God's glory and power.
- No one could enter the sanctuary until the 7 plagues were finished.
Revelations 16
- A loud voice told the 7 angels to pour out their bowls.
1) First Plague - harmful sores on people who worshiped the beast and had his mark.
2) Second Plague - the sea turned to blood and everything in it died.
3) Third Plague - turned the rivers into blood and said, "Just is God who brought these judgments , for God has given them blood to drink for the saints' blood they shed.
- The altar spoke reiterated that God's judgments are "true and just".
4) Fourth Plague - the sun was allowed to scorch people, but the people refused to turn to God and cursed Him instead.
5) Fifth Plague - turned Beast's throne into darkness, but people gnawed their tongues and cursed God for their sores.
6) Sixth Plague - The Euphrates dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the east.
- Out of the mouths of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet came 3 unclean spirits like frogs
- They are demonic spirits gathering kings to battle against the Lord.
- This quote seems to echo what Jesus said about the end coming like a thief in the night.
- They assembled their army at a place in Hebrew is called Armageddon.
7) Seventh Plague - threw his bowl into the air and a voice said, "It is done!"
- instantly there was thunder, lightning, and earthquakes.
- the earthquake was much bigger than anything since man had been on earth.
- The great city was spilt in 3 and the cities of nations fell.
- God remember Babylon and made her drink the cup of His wrath.
- Every island and mountain fled and were no more.
- 100 pound hail stones fell to earth.
- The people still responded by cursing God.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Deuteronomy 13 - Isaiah 31 – Revelations 13
Deuteronomy 13
- If a prophet or a seer says to go after other gods the people shouldn't listen to him.
- God uses this false prophet to test His people to see if they love Him.
- The people should follow God comandments and stay close to Him.
- That false prophet should be put to death because he taught rebellion.
- They shall "purge evil from their midst.
- If your family, wife, or friends tempt you to serve other gods, you shouldn't listen to them.
- These deceitful friends and family members shall be exposed and killed.
- He shall be stoned for trying to steer others away from God.
- Israel's response will be to fear and never turn to other idols again.
- If there are people in the cities they will overthrow who try to persuade them to turn from God, then the inhabitants of the city and its cattle shall be killed with the sword.
- They should inquire, make search, and ask diligently to see if people are turning the Israelites from God.
- The whole city's belongings shall be gathered and burned as a burnt offering to God.
- They shouldn't rebuild a city in that place.
- None of their gods devoted things shall be taken so that God can respond to them with mercy and not anger.
- God wants to show mercy and multiply them.
- He will do this if they obey His commandments and do what is right.
Isaiah 31
- Woe to those who go down to Egypt.
- They are trusting in chariots and horsemen because they are many.
- But they don't consult God.
- God is wise and brings disaster and won't take back His words.
- God will be against evildoers and those who help bring iniquity.
- The Egyptians are merely men of flesh, not spirit
- God will stretch out His hand and make the helper (Egyptians) and the helped (those running to Egypt) perish together.
- They will be terrified like a lion who many shepherds come out to scare away.
- The Lord will protect, deliver, spare, and rescue Jerusalem.
- They should turn to God, not the Egyptians for help.
- They have deeply revolted and made idols of gold and silver which were made sinfully.
- The Assyrians shall fall by the sword of God, not of man.
- The Assyrians shall be put in God's furnace which is Israel.
- Those who hear what God has done will give attention.
- The heart of the hasty will understand and the speech of the stammerer will be distinct.
- The noble and honorable will become fools.
- The fool = speaking folly, busy with iniquity and ungodliness, uttering errors about God.
- This leaves the fools hungry and thirsty.
- The evil doer = devices evil, plans wicked things, ruins the poor by lying about them.
- The noble one = does noble things and stands because of them.
Revelations 13
The First Beast = rose out of the sea with 10 horns, 7 heads, and 10 crowns, and blasphemous names on each head.
- Looked like a leopard with bear's feet, a lion's mouth.
- The dragon gave this beast his power and throne and authority.
- One of its heads seemed to be mortally wounded but it was healed and the world marveled.
- They worshipped the dragon for giving up his power and the beast because he seemed to have unbeatable power.
- The beast spoke blasphemous words against God and heaven for 42 months.
- The beast was also allowed to make war and defeat the saints.
- Everyone on earth whose name was not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb worshipped the beast.
- Anyone to be taken captive or killed, that's what happened to them.
The Second Beast = rose out of the earth, with two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.
- It makes the whole earth worship the first beast.
- It performed great signs including making fire come from heaven.
- With these miracles in convinced the whole world to make an idol of the first beast.
- The second beast gave the image (idol) the ability to speak and even slay those who wouldn't worship it.
- This idol causes all to wear the mark of the beast on their right hand or forehead.
- No one could buy or sell without this mark.
- Why shouldn't anyone calculate the number of the beast?
- Why did John tell us the number then of 666?
- If a prophet or a seer says to go after other gods the people shouldn't listen to him.
- God uses this false prophet to test His people to see if they love Him.
- The people should follow God comandments and stay close to Him.
- That false prophet should be put to death because he taught rebellion.
- They shall "purge evil from their midst.
- If your family, wife, or friends tempt you to serve other gods, you shouldn't listen to them.
- These deceitful friends and family members shall be exposed and killed.
- He shall be stoned for trying to steer others away from God.
- Israel's response will be to fear and never turn to other idols again.
- If there are people in the cities they will overthrow who try to persuade them to turn from God, then the inhabitants of the city and its cattle shall be killed with the sword.
- They should inquire, make search, and ask diligently to see if people are turning the Israelites from God.
- The whole city's belongings shall be gathered and burned as a burnt offering to God.
- They shouldn't rebuild a city in that place.
- None of their gods devoted things shall be taken so that God can respond to them with mercy and not anger.
- God wants to show mercy and multiply them.
- He will do this if they obey His commandments and do what is right.
Isaiah 31
- Woe to those who go down to Egypt.
- They are trusting in chariots and horsemen because they are many.
- But they don't consult God.
- God is wise and brings disaster and won't take back His words.
- God will be against evildoers and those who help bring iniquity.
- The Egyptians are merely men of flesh, not spirit
- God will stretch out His hand and make the helper (Egyptians) and the helped (those running to Egypt) perish together.
- They will be terrified like a lion who many shepherds come out to scare away.
- The Lord will protect, deliver, spare, and rescue Jerusalem.
- They should turn to God, not the Egyptians for help.
- They have deeply revolted and made idols of gold and silver which were made sinfully.
- The Assyrians shall fall by the sword of God, not of man.
- The Assyrians shall be put in God's furnace which is Israel.
- Those who hear what God has done will give attention.
- The heart of the hasty will understand and the speech of the stammerer will be distinct.
- The noble and honorable will become fools.
- The fool = speaking folly, busy with iniquity and ungodliness, uttering errors about God.
- This leaves the fools hungry and thirsty.
- The evil doer = devices evil, plans wicked things, ruins the poor by lying about them.
- The noble one = does noble things and stands because of them.
Revelations 13
The First Beast = rose out of the sea with 10 horns, 7 heads, and 10 crowns, and blasphemous names on each head.
- Looked like a leopard with bear's feet, a lion's mouth.
- The dragon gave this beast his power and throne and authority.
- One of its heads seemed to be mortally wounded but it was healed and the world marveled.
- They worshipped the dragon for giving up his power and the beast because he seemed to have unbeatable power.
- The beast spoke blasphemous words against God and heaven for 42 months.
- The beast was also allowed to make war and defeat the saints.
- Everyone on earth whose name was not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb worshipped the beast.
- Anyone to be taken captive or killed, that's what happened to them.
The Second Beast = rose out of the earth, with two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.
- It makes the whole earth worship the first beast.
- It performed great signs including making fire come from heaven.
- With these miracles in convinced the whole world to make an idol of the first beast.
- The second beast gave the image (idol) the ability to speak and even slay those who wouldn't worship it.
- This idol causes all to wear the mark of the beast on their right hand or forehead.
- No one could buy or sell without this mark.
- Why shouldn't anyone calculate the number of the beast?
- Why did John tell us the number then of 666?
Friday, October 23, 2009
Deuteronomy 12 - Isaiah 30 – 2 Corinthians 13 – Revelations 12
Deuteronomy 12
- Now Moses gives them the statutes and rules to follow.
- The shall destroy the altars to other gods in the nations they take over.
- They shall burn the Asherim with fire and chop down their idols.
- They can't worship God and the other idols.
- They shall seek a place of habitation for God there.
- That's where they will bring their tithes and offerings; their vow and free will offerings and first born of their livestock.
- There they will eat, rejoice, in all that God has blessed them with.
- They shouldn't do there what they are doing now; whatever each person thinks is right.
- They haven't yet reached the rest and inheritance God has promised them.
- God will give them rest from their enemies and safety.
- God will choose a place there for their burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, and contributions
- There they will rejoice before the Lord with their children and their servants.
- The Levites in the various towns will also celebrate there.
- They shouldn't offer sacrifices anywhere they choose any more, but just where God chooses.
- They may slaughter and eat meat in their towns according to what God blesses them with.
- The unclean and clean may eat the deer or the gazelle, but they shouldn't eat the blood.
- They can NOT eat of their grain offering, first of wine or livestock.
- These shall be eaten in the place God chooses. This goes for their children, servants, and Levites with them.
- They shall rejoice in God in all that they do.
- They shouldn't neglect the Levite.
- God will enlarge their territory and they can eat meat whenever they want.
- If the place God chooses is too far from their town, they may eat within their town.
- Isn't this distance subjective?
- It repeats that the unclean and clean may eat the deer or the gazelle and not to eat the blood.
- The blood is life and that shouldn't be eaten with the flesh.
- They don't eat the blood so it may go well with them.
- Their vow offerings should be taken to the place God chooses.
- the blood from their offerings should be poured on the alter, but they may eat the flesh.
- Moses tells them to be careful and obey these things so it may go well with them forever when they do what is good and right in God's eyes.
- Moses warns them not to be ensnared and follow those people they overthrow.
- They shouldn't even ask how the previous nations served their gods lest they be tempted to do the same.
- They shouldn't do that, because every thing abominable to God, they have done.
- They even burnt their children to their gods.
- Moses tells them not to add to or take away from what God has commanded.
Isaiah 30
- God rebukes those who carry out ungodly plans and add sin upon sin.
- Those who went down to Egypt without asking God first because they wanted Pharaoh to protect them.
- Pharaoh's shelter and protection shall be their shame and humiliation.
- Even though Pharaoh's officials reach all the way to Zion, he will not profit them.
- An oracle on the beasts of Negeb says, "The lion and fiery serpent carry their riches to Egypt who cannot help them. That's why they call her "Rahab who sits still"
- Isaiah is to write this on a tablet and in a book so people can witness forever that they are rebellious and their children will not listen to God's instructions.
- They even tell the seers and prophets NOT to tell them what's right.
- They don't want to hear anymore about the Holy One of Israel.
- Their iniquity is on themselves because they trust in oppression and perverseness.
- They are like a leaning wall about to fall over or a pot smashed to pieces.
- They shall be saved through repentance and quietness.
- They thought they could ride their horses to get away, but a few invaders will cause them to flee.
- God is waiting to be gracious to them and exalts Himself in showing them mercy.
- God is a just god and those who wait on Him are blessed.
- Those who wait in Zion will experience God's grace.
- He will answer them when He hears them.
- God (Teacher) will not hide Himself anymore though they face affliction and adversity.
- They will hear God tell them which way to go.
- Then they will turn from idols and tell them to "Be gone!"
- In that day rain will grow seeds and the livestock will flourish.
- Streams will again flow from the mountains.
- Moonlight will be like sunlight.
- When God binds the broken the sunlight shall be 7 times brighter.
- The name of the Lord will come burning with anger and fury.
- His tongue will be a devouring fire and His breath like an overflowing stream.
- They shall have a celebratory song and be glad.
- The Lord's voice will be heard and His fury will be seen in storms and hailstones.
- This will terrify the Assyrians.
- God will fight the Assyrians.
- Topheth (a burning place) has been prepared for them.
- A fire pyre has been made for the king.
2 Corinthians 13
- This will be the 3rd time Paul is coming to them.
- He tells them that every charge must have 2 -3 witnesses.
- Paul is warning those in sin like he did during his 2nd visit, that he won't spare them on his next visit because they are seeking proof that Christ is speaking through Paul.
- Christ is not weak when dealing with them. He is powerful.
- Christ was crucified in weakness but He lives by the power of God.
- Paul and the others are also weak in Him but will live with Him by the power of God.
- Paul challenges them to examine and test themselves to see if they are in faith.
- Paul asks whether they realize Christ is in them.
- Paul hopes they will trust he hasn't failed the test.
- Paul prays that they won't do wring, but will do what is right even though he and the others seem to have failed.
- How have Paul and the others failed?
- Paul says that can't do anything against the truth.
- Paul is glad when he is weak and they are strong.
- They pray for the Corinthians' restoration.
- Paul writes them before his visit in hopes that when he is there he won't have to be "severe" in his use of the Lord's authority.
- Paul says his authority is for building up and not tearing down.
- Paul tells them to rejoice, aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace, and the love of God will be with them.
- They are supposed to greet one another with a holy kiss.
- Paul prays that Jesus' grace, God's love, and the Holy Spirit's fellowship will be with them all.
Revelations 12
- A great sign = woman clothed with the sun. The moon was under her feet. a crown of 12 stars was on her head.
- She was pregnant and about to give birth.
- A second sign = a great red dragon, 7 heads with 7 diadems (crowns) and 10 horns
- Its tails swept 1/3 of the stars out of heaven and threw them to earth.
- The dragon waited to devour the woman's child when it was born.
- She gave birth to a man child, who was to rule all mankind with a rod of iron, but the child was caught up to God's throne.
- The woman fled into the wilderness and was nourished for 1,260 days in a place God had prepared for her.
- Why didn't the dragon eat the man child?
- A war arose and Michael led the angels against the dragon.
- The dragon and his angels were defeated and there was no more space for them in heaven.
- The dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent (Genesis reference?)
- The dragon is also know as the devil, Satan, deceiver of the world was thrown down to earth with his angels.
- At this moment the salvation and the power and kingdom and authority of Christ has come because the accuser (Satan) has been thrown down.
- Satan accuses us night and day before God.
- Satan has been conquered by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of the testimony of those who died for Him.
- The heavens will rejoice, but the earth will woe because Satan has come to earth full of wrath because he knows his time is short.
- When the dragon was thrown to earth he pursued the woman, but but she flew away on eagle's wings.
- She flew away to the place where she'd be nourished for 1,260 days in the wilderness.
- What does it mean she will be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time?
- The dragon poured flood waters out of his mouth to sweep her away, but the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the water to help the woman.
- The dragon became furious and went off to make war with the rest of her offspring.
- Her offspring were those who keep the commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus.
- He (the dragon?) stood on the sand of the sea.
- Now Moses gives them the statutes and rules to follow.
- The shall destroy the altars to other gods in the nations they take over.
- They shall burn the Asherim with fire and chop down their idols.
- They can't worship God and the other idols.
- They shall seek a place of habitation for God there.
- That's where they will bring their tithes and offerings; their vow and free will offerings and first born of their livestock.
- There they will eat, rejoice, in all that God has blessed them with.
- They shouldn't do there what they are doing now; whatever each person thinks is right.
- They haven't yet reached the rest and inheritance God has promised them.
- God will give them rest from their enemies and safety.
- God will choose a place there for their burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, and contributions
- There they will rejoice before the Lord with their children and their servants.
- The Levites in the various towns will also celebrate there.
- They shouldn't offer sacrifices anywhere they choose any more, but just where God chooses.
- They may slaughter and eat meat in their towns according to what God blesses them with.
- The unclean and clean may eat the deer or the gazelle, but they shouldn't eat the blood.
- They can NOT eat of their grain offering, first of wine or livestock.
- These shall be eaten in the place God chooses. This goes for their children, servants, and Levites with them.
- They shall rejoice in God in all that they do.
- They shouldn't neglect the Levite.
- God will enlarge their territory and they can eat meat whenever they want.
- If the place God chooses is too far from their town, they may eat within their town.
- Isn't this distance subjective?
- It repeats that the unclean and clean may eat the deer or the gazelle and not to eat the blood.
- The blood is life and that shouldn't be eaten with the flesh.
- They don't eat the blood so it may go well with them.
- Their vow offerings should be taken to the place God chooses.
- the blood from their offerings should be poured on the alter, but they may eat the flesh.
- Moses tells them to be careful and obey these things so it may go well with them forever when they do what is good and right in God's eyes.
- Moses warns them not to be ensnared and follow those people they overthrow.
- They shouldn't even ask how the previous nations served their gods lest they be tempted to do the same.
- They shouldn't do that, because every thing abominable to God, they have done.
- They even burnt their children to their gods.
- Moses tells them not to add to or take away from what God has commanded.
Isaiah 30
- God rebukes those who carry out ungodly plans and add sin upon sin.
- Those who went down to Egypt without asking God first because they wanted Pharaoh to protect them.
- Pharaoh's shelter and protection shall be their shame and humiliation.
- Even though Pharaoh's officials reach all the way to Zion, he will not profit them.
- An oracle on the beasts of Negeb says, "The lion and fiery serpent carry their riches to Egypt who cannot help them. That's why they call her "Rahab who sits still"
- Isaiah is to write this on a tablet and in a book so people can witness forever that they are rebellious and their children will not listen to God's instructions.
- They even tell the seers and prophets NOT to tell them what's right.
- They don't want to hear anymore about the Holy One of Israel.
- Their iniquity is on themselves because they trust in oppression and perverseness.
- They are like a leaning wall about to fall over or a pot smashed to pieces.
- They shall be saved through repentance and quietness.
- They thought they could ride their horses to get away, but a few invaders will cause them to flee.
- God is waiting to be gracious to them and exalts Himself in showing them mercy.
- God is a just god and those who wait on Him are blessed.
- Those who wait in Zion will experience God's grace.
- He will answer them when He hears them.
- God (Teacher) will not hide Himself anymore though they face affliction and adversity.
- They will hear God tell them which way to go.
- Then they will turn from idols and tell them to "Be gone!"
- In that day rain will grow seeds and the livestock will flourish.
- Streams will again flow from the mountains.
- Moonlight will be like sunlight.
- When God binds the broken the sunlight shall be 7 times brighter.
- The name of the Lord will come burning with anger and fury.
- His tongue will be a devouring fire and His breath like an overflowing stream.
- They shall have a celebratory song and be glad.
- The Lord's voice will be heard and His fury will be seen in storms and hailstones.
- This will terrify the Assyrians.
- God will fight the Assyrians.
- Topheth (a burning place) has been prepared for them.
- A fire pyre has been made for the king.
2 Corinthians 13
- This will be the 3rd time Paul is coming to them.
- He tells them that every charge must have 2 -3 witnesses.
- Paul is warning those in sin like he did during his 2nd visit, that he won't spare them on his next visit because they are seeking proof that Christ is speaking through Paul.
- Christ is not weak when dealing with them. He is powerful.
- Christ was crucified in weakness but He lives by the power of God.
- Paul and the others are also weak in Him but will live with Him by the power of God.
- Paul challenges them to examine and test themselves to see if they are in faith.
- Paul asks whether they realize Christ is in them.
- Paul hopes they will trust he hasn't failed the test.
- Paul prays that they won't do wring, but will do what is right even though he and the others seem to have failed.
- How have Paul and the others failed?
- Paul says that can't do anything against the truth.
- Paul is glad when he is weak and they are strong.
- They pray for the Corinthians' restoration.
- Paul writes them before his visit in hopes that when he is there he won't have to be "severe" in his use of the Lord's authority.
- Paul says his authority is for building up and not tearing down.
- Paul tells them to rejoice, aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace, and the love of God will be with them.
- They are supposed to greet one another with a holy kiss.
- Paul prays that Jesus' grace, God's love, and the Holy Spirit's fellowship will be with them all.
Revelations 12
- A great sign = woman clothed with the sun. The moon was under her feet. a crown of 12 stars was on her head.
- She was pregnant and about to give birth.
- A second sign = a great red dragon, 7 heads with 7 diadems (crowns) and 10 horns
- Its tails swept 1/3 of the stars out of heaven and threw them to earth.
- The dragon waited to devour the woman's child when it was born.
- She gave birth to a man child, who was to rule all mankind with a rod of iron, but the child was caught up to God's throne.
- The woman fled into the wilderness and was nourished for 1,260 days in a place God had prepared for her.
- Why didn't the dragon eat the man child?
- A war arose and Michael led the angels against the dragon.
- The dragon and his angels were defeated and there was no more space for them in heaven.
- The dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent (Genesis reference?)
- The dragon is also know as the devil, Satan, deceiver of the world was thrown down to earth with his angels.
- At this moment the salvation and the power and kingdom and authority of Christ has come because the accuser (Satan) has been thrown down.
- Satan accuses us night and day before God.
- Satan has been conquered by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of the testimony of those who died for Him.
- The heavens will rejoice, but the earth will woe because Satan has come to earth full of wrath because he knows his time is short.
- When the dragon was thrown to earth he pursued the woman, but but she flew away on eagle's wings.
- She flew away to the place where she'd be nourished for 1,260 days in the wilderness.
- What does it mean she will be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time?
- The dragon poured flood waters out of his mouth to sweep her away, but the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the water to help the woman.
- The dragon became furious and went off to make war with the rest of her offspring.
- Her offspring were those who keep the commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus.
- He (the dragon?) stood on the sand of the sea.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Deuteronomy 11 - Isaiah 29 – 2 Corinthians 12 – Revelations 11
Deuteronomy 11
- They were to love their God and keep His rules and commandments.
- God is speaking to His people (not their children) because they have seen His power and works in Egypt.
- Moses recounts the parting of the Red Sea and how God destroyed the Egyptians who pursued them.
- He also recounts how God provided for them in the wilderness
- How Dathan and Abiram were swallowed up by the earth.
- The Israelites had seen all of these things.
- Because of these things that should keep all of God's commandments.
- Because of these things they should be strong and go take possession of the land.
- They will live long in the land promised to their fathers.
- In Egypt they had to irrigate their crops but in the promised land streams and rains will grow their crops.
- God cares for this land all year long.
- If they obey God's commands and love Him whole heartedly he will provide rain for the land and grass for their livestock.
- Beware or you may be deceived and turn to other gods which will bring about God's anger against them and will stop the rains.
- If they turn to other gods they will perish quickly.
- Because of this they should put God's words in their hearts, on the hands and near their eyes.
- They should teach God's commandments to their children when talking, walking, or lying with them (constantly)
- They shall write God's laws on their doorposts and on their gates which will multiply their days in the land.If they hold fast to God and love Him, He will drive out their enemies who are mightier than they are.
- Their territory shall be from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.
- No one will be able to stand against them and people will fear them as God had promised.
- Moses is setting before them this day a blessing and a curse.
- The blessing = if they obey
- The curse = if they do not obey God's commandments and go after other gods.
- They shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal which are west of the Jordan in the land of the Canaanites.
- They will cross the Jordan and take this land.
- Moses reminds them again that when they arrived in the promised land they should be careful to keep God's statutes and rules that they are receiving this day.
Isaiah 29
- Ariel is a city where David camped
- They will feast year after year but they too will mourn.
- What does it mean that she shall be an Ariel?
- God will camp against them and besiege them.
- Their speech shall be bowed down in the dust.
- Their foreign foes will be like the dust and they will be visited by God.
- He will come with thunder and earthquake and whirlwind and devouring fire.
- Fighting against Ariel will be like a dream when you eat but wake up hungry.
- All the nations shall be against Mount Zion.
- They will be astonished and stagger, not from wine, but from the deep sleep.
- Their eyes (the prophets) will be closed and their heads (the seers) will be covered.
- The visions of things to come has become like a sealed book which cannot be read but either the literate or the illiterate.
- God says they honer Him with their lips but their hearts are far from Him.
- Because of this God will again do great things which will shame the wise
- The people ask "who can see us?" and they turn things upside down.
- The clay cannot tell the potter he didn't make it.
- It would be like a pot saying the potter has no understanding.
- Lebanon shall soon be turned into a fruitful field and the fruitful field regarded as a forest.
- In that day, the deaf shall hear the words of a book, the blind see, and the meek shall get fresh joy in the Lord.
- The poor shall exult the Lord.
- The ruthless, the scoffer, the evil doer shall be cut off.
- Who can turn aside him who is in the right?
- Jacob won't be ashamed and his face grow pale.
- His children will sanctify His name and stand in awe of God.
- Those who go astray in spirit will come to understanding and those who murmur will accept instruction.
2 Corinthians 12
- Paul continues his boasting though he says it gains him nothing.
- He focuses in on visions and revelations about the Lord.
- Paul says he know a guy who 14 years ago was called up tp the 3rd heaven (not sure if it was in body or simply in spirit) (Was he talking about John?)
- What is the 3rd heaven?
- This man was caught up into paradise.
- He heard things which a man cannot utter.
- Paul is boasting in this man and his own weakness.
- If Paul boasts he would be speaking the truth.
- Paul doesn't boast because he doesn't want people thinking too much of him.
- To keep Paul from being to excited over his revelations a thorn was given to his flesh.
- A messenger of Satan (a demon?) was sent to harass him and keep him from being too elated.
- 3 times Paul pleaded with the Lord to remove this "thorn" and the Lord replied, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my powers are made perfect in weakness."
- That is why Paul boasts in his weakness so God's power may rest on him.
- For Christ's sake, Paul can be content with insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities.
- Paul knows that when he is weak, then he is actual strong (in the Lord).
- Paul says the Corinthians made him a fool.
- Paul says he isn't inferior to the "super apostles".
- Signs of true apostles were done among them with patience; signs, wonders, and mighty works.
- Paul says the only thing that made them different from other churches was that he didn't burden them.
- He (sarcastically) asks for their forgiveness on this.
- Paul is ready to come to them a 3rd time.
- He isn't seeking what they have, but simply seeking them.
- He is saving up and spending himself for them like a parent does for his child.
- Why did they feel deceived by Paul?
- Paul didn't take advantage of them himself or by Titus or the brother he sent with Titus.
- Who was "the brother" sent with Titus?
- Paul fears not finding them as he wishes or them thinking less of him when he comes.
- Paul fears that he'll find quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.
- Paul fears having to mourn over those who have not turned from their sin; impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality.
- What would constitute as sensuality?
Revelations 11
- John was given a measuring rob to measure the temple of God, the altar and those who worship there.
- He wasn't to measure the court outside the temple because it will be given over to the nations and trampled for 42 months.
- He will grant authority to His 2 witnesses and they will prophesy for 1,260 days in sackcloth.
- These prophets are the 2 trees and 2 lampstands that stand before God on earth.
- Anyone trying to harm these two will be consumed by fire.
- These 2 prophets have the power to shut the sky so no rain may fall while they prophesy.
- They can turn the water into blood and strike earth with every plague.
- after they finish prophesying the beast will arise from the bottomless pit make war on them and kill them.
- Their dead bodies will lie in the streets symbolically called Sodom and Egypt.
- People from various tribes will look at their dead bodies for 3 1/2 days, but refuse to place their bodies in a tomb.
- Those who dwell on the earth will rejoice because the 2 prophets tormented them.
- But after 3 1/2 days, God breathed on them and they were alive again.
- People who saw them were afraid.
- A voice will call out to them and they will rise to heaven on a cloud.
- When that happened there was great earthquake that destroyed 1/10 of the city.
- 7,000 people were killed in this earthquake, but the rest were terrified and gave glory to God.
- This was the 2nd woe
7) The seventh angel blew the 7th trumpet.
- loud voices in heaven the kingdom of the world has become Christ's kingdom.
- the 24 elders again fell on their faces and worshipped God.
- They said, "we give thanks to you who is and was for Hos great power He has begun to reign. The nations fought but then God's wrath came and it was time to judge the dead and to reward the prophets and saints and those who fear God's name (great and small) and for destroying those who destroy on earth."
- Then God's temple opened and the ark of the covenant could be seen.
- There was lightning, thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
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- They were to love their God and keep His rules and commandments.
- God is speaking to His people (not their children) because they have seen His power and works in Egypt.
- Moses recounts the parting of the Red Sea and how God destroyed the Egyptians who pursued them.
- He also recounts how God provided for them in the wilderness
- How Dathan and Abiram were swallowed up by the earth.
- The Israelites had seen all of these things.
- Because of these things that should keep all of God's commandments.
- Because of these things they should be strong and go take possession of the land.
- They will live long in the land promised to their fathers.
- In Egypt they had to irrigate their crops but in the promised land streams and rains will grow their crops.
- God cares for this land all year long.
- If they obey God's commands and love Him whole heartedly he will provide rain for the land and grass for their livestock.
- Beware or you may be deceived and turn to other gods which will bring about God's anger against them and will stop the rains.
- If they turn to other gods they will perish quickly.
- Because of this they should put God's words in their hearts, on the hands and near their eyes.
- They should teach God's commandments to their children when talking, walking, or lying with them (constantly)
- They shall write God's laws on their doorposts and on their gates which will multiply their days in the land.If they hold fast to God and love Him, He will drive out their enemies who are mightier than they are.
- Their territory shall be from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.
- No one will be able to stand against them and people will fear them as God had promised.
- Moses is setting before them this day a blessing and a curse.
- The blessing = if they obey
- The curse = if they do not obey God's commandments and go after other gods.
- They shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal which are west of the Jordan in the land of the Canaanites.
- They will cross the Jordan and take this land.
- Moses reminds them again that when they arrived in the promised land they should be careful to keep God's statutes and rules that they are receiving this day.
Isaiah 29
- Ariel is a city where David camped
- They will feast year after year but they too will mourn.
- What does it mean that she shall be an Ariel?
- God will camp against them and besiege them.
- Their speech shall be bowed down in the dust.
- Their foreign foes will be like the dust and they will be visited by God.
- He will come with thunder and earthquake and whirlwind and devouring fire.
- Fighting against Ariel will be like a dream when you eat but wake up hungry.
- All the nations shall be against Mount Zion.
- They will be astonished and stagger, not from wine, but from the deep sleep.
- Their eyes (the prophets) will be closed and their heads (the seers) will be covered.
- The visions of things to come has become like a sealed book which cannot be read but either the literate or the illiterate.
- God says they honer Him with their lips but their hearts are far from Him.
- Because of this God will again do great things which will shame the wise
- The people ask "who can see us?" and they turn things upside down.
- The clay cannot tell the potter he didn't make it.
- It would be like a pot saying the potter has no understanding.
- Lebanon shall soon be turned into a fruitful field and the fruitful field regarded as a forest.
- In that day, the deaf shall hear the words of a book, the blind see, and the meek shall get fresh joy in the Lord.
- The poor shall exult the Lord.
- The ruthless, the scoffer, the evil doer shall be cut off.
- Who can turn aside him who is in the right?
- Jacob won't be ashamed and his face grow pale.
- His children will sanctify His name and stand in awe of God.
- Those who go astray in spirit will come to understanding and those who murmur will accept instruction.
2 Corinthians 12
- Paul continues his boasting though he says it gains him nothing.
- He focuses in on visions and revelations about the Lord.
- Paul says he know a guy who 14 years ago was called up tp the 3rd heaven (not sure if it was in body or simply in spirit) (Was he talking about John?)
- What is the 3rd heaven?
- This man was caught up into paradise.
- He heard things which a man cannot utter.
- Paul is boasting in this man and his own weakness.
- If Paul boasts he would be speaking the truth.
- Paul doesn't boast because he doesn't want people thinking too much of him.
- To keep Paul from being to excited over his revelations a thorn was given to his flesh.
- A messenger of Satan (a demon?) was sent to harass him and keep him from being too elated.
- 3 times Paul pleaded with the Lord to remove this "thorn" and the Lord replied, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my powers are made perfect in weakness."
- That is why Paul boasts in his weakness so God's power may rest on him.
- For Christ's sake, Paul can be content with insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities.
- Paul knows that when he is weak, then he is actual strong (in the Lord).
- Paul says the Corinthians made him a fool.
- Paul says he isn't inferior to the "super apostles".
- Signs of true apostles were done among them with patience; signs, wonders, and mighty works.
- Paul says the only thing that made them different from other churches was that he didn't burden them.
- He (sarcastically) asks for their forgiveness on this.
- Paul is ready to come to them a 3rd time.
- He isn't seeking what they have, but simply seeking them.
- He is saving up and spending himself for them like a parent does for his child.
- Why did they feel deceived by Paul?
- Paul didn't take advantage of them himself or by Titus or the brother he sent with Titus.
- Who was "the brother" sent with Titus?
- Paul fears not finding them as he wishes or them thinking less of him when he comes.
- Paul fears that he'll find quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.
- Paul fears having to mourn over those who have not turned from their sin; impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality.
- What would constitute as sensuality?
Revelations 11
- John was given a measuring rob to measure the temple of God, the altar and those who worship there.
- He wasn't to measure the court outside the temple because it will be given over to the nations and trampled for 42 months.
- He will grant authority to His 2 witnesses and they will prophesy for 1,260 days in sackcloth.
- These prophets are the 2 trees and 2 lampstands that stand before God on earth.
- Anyone trying to harm these two will be consumed by fire.
- These 2 prophets have the power to shut the sky so no rain may fall while they prophesy.
- They can turn the water into blood and strike earth with every plague.
- after they finish prophesying the beast will arise from the bottomless pit make war on them and kill them.
- Their dead bodies will lie in the streets symbolically called Sodom and Egypt.
- People from various tribes will look at their dead bodies for 3 1/2 days, but refuse to place their bodies in a tomb.
- Those who dwell on the earth will rejoice because the 2 prophets tormented them.
- But after 3 1/2 days, God breathed on them and they were alive again.
- People who saw them were afraid.
- A voice will call out to them and they will rise to heaven on a cloud.
- When that happened there was great earthquake that destroyed 1/10 of the city.
- 7,000 people were killed in this earthquake, but the rest were terrified and gave glory to God.
- This was the 2nd woe
7) The seventh angel blew the 7th trumpet.
- loud voices in heaven the kingdom of the world has become Christ's kingdom.
- the 24 elders again fell on their faces and worshipped God.
- They said, "we give thanks to you who is and was for Hos great power He has begun to reign. The nations fought but then God's wrath came and it was time to judge the dead and to reward the prophets and saints and those who fear God's name (great and small) and for destroying those who destroy on earth."
- Then God's temple opened and the ark of the covenant could be seen.
- There was lightning, thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
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Monday, October 12, 2009
QT for Monday/Tuesday
Today and tomorrow I'm going through a message on the Tragedy of Sin. For my accountability people I DID have a quiet time today, it was a sermon rather than Bible reading and notes.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Deuteronomy 10 - Isaiah 28 – 2 Corinthians 11 – Revelations 10
Deuteronomy 10
- God told Moses to cut two more stone tablets and make an ark of wood.
- God said He'd rewrite the commandments on the tablets
- Moses made the ark of acacia wood.
- God rewrote the words in the same writing as before. God had spoken these same words to the people through the fire.
- Moses put the tablets in the ark and brought it down as God told him to do.
- Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah where Aaron died.
- They traveled to Gudgodah and then to Jotbathah, a land with brooks of water.
- Here God appointed the Levites to watch over the ark and bless God's name.
- The Lord is the inheritance of the Levites, not what they get from conquests.
- Moses stayed on the mountain for 40 days and night talking with God.
- He said that God listened to him then.
- The Lord said He wouldn't destroy them.
- God told Moses to go lead the people into the promised land.
- God wants the Israelites to fear Him, follow Him, and walk in His ways.
- They were to serve God with their heart and soul, keeping His commandments.
- Moses says God owns heaven, earth, and the heaven of heaven (What is that?)
- God chose to love their fathers and to love them as well.
- Moses tells them to circumcise their hearts (don't be stubborn)
- God is the God of gods and mighty, awesome and not a bribe taker
- He executes Justice for the widow and He loves the sojourner
- That's why the Israelites should love the sojourners (they were once ones themselves)
- Moses again tells them to fear God.
- They should serve God and hold onto Him and swear by Him (This is the opposite of what Jesus says in the Beatitudes)
- He is their praise.
- Their forefathers went down to Egypt (in the times of Joseph) 70 men and have come out as numerous as the stars.
Isaiah 28
- Ephraim was full of drunkards.
- Their glory is fading.
- The Lord has one who is mighty and strong like a storm.
- The proud drunks of Ephraim will be swallowed up like the first figs of the season.
- The Lord will be a crown of glory to those who turn back to Him.
- The priests and prophets stagger with much wine and their tables are full of vomit.
- Who will he teach knowledge? is the question posed by this verse
- Who is the "he" in this verse?
- They keep adding more and more precepts and words.
- God will try to speak to them by foreigners, but they still won't listen.
- God told His people he wants to give them rest for the weary but they won't listen.
- God's word will be precept upon precept to them and they will fall and be broken.
- Isaiah says they have made a deal with death and made lies their refuge.
- God reminds them that God is the cornerstone and a sure foundation.
- God has made a righteousness a plumb line and hail will sweep away those sheltering in lies.
- God will annul their covenant with death.
- They will be overwhelmed and sheered by terror until they understand God's message.
- God will be roused to do His deed.
- Do not laugh at God's decrees and become more inbounded to sin and pride.
- They need to hear what God is saying
- A farmer doesn't continually til the soil, but he plants in it and lets it grow.
- There are certain ways to harvest various crops.
- God will till the soil (discipline them) and then harvest those who turn to Him.
2 Corinthians 11
- Paul asks them to bear with him as he presents them to Christ as his bride with divine jealousy.
- Paul fears they have been led astray like Eve was by the serpent.
- Their thoughts are being led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
- They seem to be accepting all variations of the gospel
- Paul boasts that he is not inferior to the super apostles
- Paul says he is unskilled in speaking but not in knowledge.
- Paul asks them if it was wrong that he shared the gospel with them for free.
- Paul had accepted payment from other churches in order to serve the Corinthians.
- Paul reminds them that he didn't ask them for anything but his fellow brothers from Macedonia supplied his needs.
- Paul will continue to boasting Achaia.
- Paul does this to undermine claims of other false apostles.
- Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
- Satan's servant also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness.
- Their end will correspond with the deeds.
- Paul says he will be a fool because the Corinthians let others make slaves of them, take advantage of them, and even slap them in the face.
- Paul says he was "too weak for that"
- Paul boasts that he is Hebrew, an Israelite, an offspring of Abraham, a servant of Christ, 5 times he received 40 lashes minus one, 3 times was beaten with rods, stoned once, 3 times shipwrecked, spent a night and a day adrift at sea,
- He also survived rivers, robbers, danger from Jews and Gentiles, city, wilderness, sea, false brothers, faced many hardships, had sleepless nights, hungry, thirsty, cold and exposure.
- On top of all these things Paul has an anxiety for all the churches.
- Paul said he will boast of the things that show his weakness.
- Paul says God knows he isn't lying.
- In Damascus the governor under King Aretas wanted to seize Paul but he escaped through a window in the wall in a basket.
Revelations 10
- John saw another angel wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, with a face like the sun.
- His legs were like pillars of fire.
- He had a little scroll opened in his hand.
- His right foot was on the sea and his left foot was on the land.
- His voice was like a roaring lion.
- When he spoke 7 thunders sounded.
- A voice told John not to write down what the seven thunders had said.
- The angel swore by him who lives forever and ever that there would be no more delay.
- The 7th trumpet would fulfill the mysteries of God as revealed by the prophets
- The voice told John to take the scroll from the angel.
- The angel told John to eat the scroll which would be bitter to the stomach but sweet to the taste.
- John was told he must prophesy about many people, nations, languages, and kings.
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- God told Moses to cut two more stone tablets and make an ark of wood.
- God said He'd rewrite the commandments on the tablets
- Moses made the ark of acacia wood.
- God rewrote the words in the same writing as before. God had spoken these same words to the people through the fire.
- Moses put the tablets in the ark and brought it down as God told him to do.
- Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah where Aaron died.
- They traveled to Gudgodah and then to Jotbathah, a land with brooks of water.
- Here God appointed the Levites to watch over the ark and bless God's name.
- The Lord is the inheritance of the Levites, not what they get from conquests.
- Moses stayed on the mountain for 40 days and night talking with God.
- He said that God listened to him then.
- The Lord said He wouldn't destroy them.
- God told Moses to go lead the people into the promised land.
- God wants the Israelites to fear Him, follow Him, and walk in His ways.
- They were to serve God with their heart and soul, keeping His commandments.
- Moses says God owns heaven, earth, and the heaven of heaven (What is that?)
- God chose to love their fathers and to love them as well.
- Moses tells them to circumcise their hearts (don't be stubborn)
- God is the God of gods and mighty, awesome and not a bribe taker
- He executes Justice for the widow and He loves the sojourner
- That's why the Israelites should love the sojourners (they were once ones themselves)
- Moses again tells them to fear God.
- They should serve God and hold onto Him and swear by Him (This is the opposite of what Jesus says in the Beatitudes)
- He is their praise.
- Their forefathers went down to Egypt (in the times of Joseph) 70 men and have come out as numerous as the stars.
Isaiah 28
- Ephraim was full of drunkards.
- Their glory is fading.
- The Lord has one who is mighty and strong like a storm.
- The proud drunks of Ephraim will be swallowed up like the first figs of the season.
- The Lord will be a crown of glory to those who turn back to Him.
- The priests and prophets stagger with much wine and their tables are full of vomit.
- Who will he teach knowledge? is the question posed by this verse
- Who is the "he" in this verse?
- They keep adding more and more precepts and words.
- God will try to speak to them by foreigners, but they still won't listen.
- God told His people he wants to give them rest for the weary but they won't listen.
- God's word will be precept upon precept to them and they will fall and be broken.
- Isaiah says they have made a deal with death and made lies their refuge.
- God reminds them that God is the cornerstone and a sure foundation.
- God has made a righteousness a plumb line and hail will sweep away those sheltering in lies.
- God will annul their covenant with death.
- They will be overwhelmed and sheered by terror until they understand God's message.
- God will be roused to do His deed.
- Do not laugh at God's decrees and become more inbounded to sin and pride.
- They need to hear what God is saying
- A farmer doesn't continually til the soil, but he plants in it and lets it grow.
- There are certain ways to harvest various crops.
- God will till the soil (discipline them) and then harvest those who turn to Him.
2 Corinthians 11
- Paul asks them to bear with him as he presents them to Christ as his bride with divine jealousy.
- Paul fears they have been led astray like Eve was by the serpent.
- Their thoughts are being led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
- They seem to be accepting all variations of the gospel
- Paul boasts that he is not inferior to the super apostles
- Paul says he is unskilled in speaking but not in knowledge.
- Paul asks them if it was wrong that he shared the gospel with them for free.
- Paul had accepted payment from other churches in order to serve the Corinthians.
- Paul reminds them that he didn't ask them for anything but his fellow brothers from Macedonia supplied his needs.
- Paul will continue to boasting Achaia.
- Paul does this to undermine claims of other false apostles.
- Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
- Satan's servant also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness.
- Their end will correspond with the deeds.
- Paul says he will be a fool because the Corinthians let others make slaves of them, take advantage of them, and even slap them in the face.
- Paul says he was "too weak for that"
- Paul boasts that he is Hebrew, an Israelite, an offspring of Abraham, a servant of Christ, 5 times he received 40 lashes minus one, 3 times was beaten with rods, stoned once, 3 times shipwrecked, spent a night and a day adrift at sea,
- He also survived rivers, robbers, danger from Jews and Gentiles, city, wilderness, sea, false brothers, faced many hardships, had sleepless nights, hungry, thirsty, cold and exposure.
- On top of all these things Paul has an anxiety for all the churches.
- Paul said he will boast of the things that show his weakness.
- Paul says God knows he isn't lying.
- In Damascus the governor under King Aretas wanted to seize Paul but he escaped through a window in the wall in a basket.
Revelations 10
- John saw another angel wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, with a face like the sun.
- His legs were like pillars of fire.
- He had a little scroll opened in his hand.
- His right foot was on the sea and his left foot was on the land.
- His voice was like a roaring lion.
- When he spoke 7 thunders sounded.
- A voice told John not to write down what the seven thunders had said.
- The angel swore by him who lives forever and ever that there would be no more delay.
- The 7th trumpet would fulfill the mysteries of God as revealed by the prophets
- The voice told John to take the scroll from the angel.
- The angel told John to eat the scroll which would be bitter to the stomach but sweet to the taste.
- John was told he must prophesy about many people, nations, languages, and kings.
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Monday, October 5, 2009
Deuteronomy 9 - Isaiah 27 – 2 Corinthians 10 – Revelations 9
Deuteronomy 9
- God told the people to cross the Jordan River and fight the nations who were greater and mightier than themselves with cities fortified to heaven (This seems discouraging)
- The sons of Anak (who they are to fight) have a reputation for being unbeatable.
- This day they will know God goes before them as a "consuming fire".
- They will beat the sons of Anak quickly and know God fought for them.
- They need to be aware of the temptation to forget God after they win and credit victory to their own righteousness or works.
- God is driving out the sons of Anak simply because they were evil, not because Israel is super righteous
- In driving the sons of Anak out God is confirm His oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- God's not rewarding them for their righteousness because they are a stubborn people (God says this 3 times).
- They should remember how they made God angry in the wilderness by constantly rebelling.
- At Horeb God wanted to destroy the Israelites because of their rebellion.
- Moses remind them how the rebelled when he was on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights getting the tablets. (Moses didn't eat or drink during that time)
- After 40 days God gave Moses the 2 tablets and sent him down the mountain because the people made a metal image.
- God wanted to destroyed the people and start over through Moses.
- Moses hurried down the burning mountain and saw they had sinned against God by making a golden (metal) calf.
- Moses responded by throwing the tablets down and breaking them before the people.
- Moses lay face down for an additional 40 days without eating or drinking (80 days total)
- Moses was afraid of God's anger toward the people.
- God was really angry at Aaron and wanted to destroy him too.
- Moses prayed for his people and for Aaron.
- What did the people do for those 40 days of Moses laying down and praying?
- Moses ground up the calf and sent its dust down a stream.
- Moses reminds them of other times they made God angry by rebelling, like at Taberah, Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah (Here God told them to go up and take a land, and they didn't believe or obey Him)
- Moses humbles them by basically saying, as long as he's known them, they have been rebellious.
- Moses prayed to God that He'd remember Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and disregard the stubbornness of His people.
- If God wiped them out, Moses feared the other nations would say God wasn't able to help His people conquer the land, so God killed them in the wilderness.
- These stubborn, rebellious people are God's heritage which God has been using to show other nations His power.
Isaiah 27
- God will slay Leviathan (sea serpent or fleeing serpent)
- God is the keeper of the pleasant vineyard and waters it.
- There's no wrath or briers in this pleasant vineyard (Is this referring to pre-sin Eden?)
- If there were briers God would burn them, or they would make peace with Him.
- In the future Jacob's descendants (Israelites) shall take root and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
- God will strike down those who struck down Israel.
- By Israel's conquering, their sins will be atoned for.
- Their sins will be removed and God will crush all the altars and Asherim poles.
- The fortified cities will be deserted and animals shall dwell there.
- The people had no discernment so God will have no compassion on them or show them any favor.
- God will "thresh out" the people of Israel from those between The Euphrates River and the Brook of Egypt
- In "that day" God will blow a great trumpet and those lost in Assyria and Egypt will come worship in Jerusalem.
2 Corinthians 10
- Why does Paul seem to be bragging about being meek and gentle?
- He says that he is humble when he's with them, but bold when he's away.
- Isn't this showing a fear of man?
- Paul says he doesn't want to have to be so bold when he's with them again.
- There are some he needs to be bold with who are walking in the flesh.
- Only by divine power can we break the hold of the flesh.
- Divine power can break the "strongholds" of the flesh.
- We need to destroy arguments and "lofty" opinions against God.
- We need to take every thought captive in order to obey Christ.
- We need to punish every disobedience. (v.6)
- Paul reminds the Corinthians that they are all believers together of the same God.
- Paul says he won't be ashamed to boast a little in what God has given him.
- Paul said his letters weren't to frighten them.
- They said his letters were strong, when in person Paul appeared weak.
- Paul says what they say in letters and person will match up.
- Paul says it's not his place to compare himself to others preaching the gospel, and those who do compare are "without understanding."
- Paul will only boast in the area of influence assigned to him by God.
- Paul says they were the first to share the gospel with the Corinthians.
- Paul won't boast in the labors of others, but in the fact that their faith is increasing.
- Paul wants to build the gospel beyond the Corinthians.
- He will only boast in the Lord.
- It doesn't matter if a person commmends himself, but only if God commends you.
Revelations 9
5) The 5th trumpet is blown
- A star fell to earth and "he" was given a key to the bottomless pit (abyss)
- Smoke came up from the unlocked pit
- The sun and air were darkened by the smoke.
- From the smoke came locusts with scorpion power (What does this mean?)
- The locusts were commanded not to eat any plants but only those people without the "mark of God" on their foreheads.
- The locusts will torment those people for five months but won't kill them.
- They will sting like scorpions and people will want to die.
- Death won't come to anyone for 5 months.
- The locusts had human faces, little golden crowns, golden hair, lion's teeth, iron breastplates, scorpion tails, and their wings will sound like chariots going into battle.
- Their power to hurt is in their tails.
- The angel is king over them. His Hebrew name is Abaddon (destruction) . His Greek name is Apollyon (destroyer).
- This ends the "First Woe"
6) The 6th trumpet is blown
- a voice came from the 4 horned altar.
- It told the 6th angel to release the 4 angels bound at the Euphrates.
- These angels were prepared for this very moment to kill 1/3 of mankind.
- The troops numbered 200,000,000.
- The horses wore breastplates the color of fire, saphire, and sulfur.
- These horses had a lion's head and breathed fire.
- The fire, smoke and sulfer were 3 plagues that killed 1/3 of the people.
- The power of these horses came from their mouths and their sepent headed tails
- The rest of mankind still did not repent but continued to worship idols.
- The did not repent of murders, sorceries, sexual immorality, or thefts
- God told the people to cross the Jordan River and fight the nations who were greater and mightier than themselves with cities fortified to heaven (This seems discouraging)
- The sons of Anak (who they are to fight) have a reputation for being unbeatable.
- This day they will know God goes before them as a "consuming fire".
- They will beat the sons of Anak quickly and know God fought for them.
- They need to be aware of the temptation to forget God after they win and credit victory to their own righteousness or works.
- God is driving out the sons of Anak simply because they were evil, not because Israel is super righteous
- In driving the sons of Anak out God is confirm His oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- God's not rewarding them for their righteousness because they are a stubborn people (God says this 3 times).
- They should remember how they made God angry in the wilderness by constantly rebelling.
- At Horeb God wanted to destroy the Israelites because of their rebellion.
- Moses remind them how the rebelled when he was on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights getting the tablets. (Moses didn't eat or drink during that time)
- After 40 days God gave Moses the 2 tablets and sent him down the mountain because the people made a metal image.
- God wanted to destroyed the people and start over through Moses.
- Moses hurried down the burning mountain and saw they had sinned against God by making a golden (metal) calf.
- Moses responded by throwing the tablets down and breaking them before the people.
- Moses lay face down for an additional 40 days without eating or drinking (80 days total)
- Moses was afraid of God's anger toward the people.
- God was really angry at Aaron and wanted to destroy him too.
- Moses prayed for his people and for Aaron.
- What did the people do for those 40 days of Moses laying down and praying?
- Moses ground up the calf and sent its dust down a stream.
- Moses reminds them of other times they made God angry by rebelling, like at Taberah, Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah (Here God told them to go up and take a land, and they didn't believe or obey Him)
- Moses humbles them by basically saying, as long as he's known them, they have been rebellious.
- Moses prayed to God that He'd remember Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and disregard the stubbornness of His people.
- If God wiped them out, Moses feared the other nations would say God wasn't able to help His people conquer the land, so God killed them in the wilderness.
- These stubborn, rebellious people are God's heritage which God has been using to show other nations His power.
Isaiah 27
- God will slay Leviathan (sea serpent or fleeing serpent)
- God is the keeper of the pleasant vineyard and waters it.
- There's no wrath or briers in this pleasant vineyard (Is this referring to pre-sin Eden?)
- If there were briers God would burn them, or they would make peace with Him.
- In the future Jacob's descendants (Israelites) shall take root and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
- God will strike down those who struck down Israel.
- By Israel's conquering, their sins will be atoned for.
- Their sins will be removed and God will crush all the altars and Asherim poles.
- The fortified cities will be deserted and animals shall dwell there.
- The people had no discernment so God will have no compassion on them or show them any favor.
- God will "thresh out" the people of Israel from those between The Euphrates River and the Brook of Egypt
- In "that day" God will blow a great trumpet and those lost in Assyria and Egypt will come worship in Jerusalem.
2 Corinthians 10
- Why does Paul seem to be bragging about being meek and gentle?
- He says that he is humble when he's with them, but bold when he's away.
- Isn't this showing a fear of man?
- Paul says he doesn't want to have to be so bold when he's with them again.
- There are some he needs to be bold with who are walking in the flesh.
- Only by divine power can we break the hold of the flesh.
- Divine power can break the "strongholds" of the flesh.
- We need to destroy arguments and "lofty" opinions against God.
- We need to take every thought captive in order to obey Christ.
- We need to punish every disobedience. (v.6)
- Paul reminds the Corinthians that they are all believers together of the same God.
- Paul says he won't be ashamed to boast a little in what God has given him.
- Paul said his letters weren't to frighten them.
- They said his letters were strong, when in person Paul appeared weak.
- Paul says what they say in letters and person will match up.
- Paul says it's not his place to compare himself to others preaching the gospel, and those who do compare are "without understanding."
- Paul will only boast in the area of influence assigned to him by God.
- Paul says they were the first to share the gospel with the Corinthians.
- Paul won't boast in the labors of others, but in the fact that their faith is increasing.
- Paul wants to build the gospel beyond the Corinthians.
- He will only boast in the Lord.
- It doesn't matter if a person commmends himself, but only if God commends you.
Revelations 9
5) The 5th trumpet is blown
- A star fell to earth and "he" was given a key to the bottomless pit (abyss)
- Smoke came up from the unlocked pit
- The sun and air were darkened by the smoke.
- From the smoke came locusts with scorpion power (What does this mean?)
- The locusts were commanded not to eat any plants but only those people without the "mark of God" on their foreheads.
- The locusts will torment those people for five months but won't kill them.
- They will sting like scorpions and people will want to die.
- Death won't come to anyone for 5 months.
- The locusts had human faces, little golden crowns, golden hair, lion's teeth, iron breastplates, scorpion tails, and their wings will sound like chariots going into battle.
- Their power to hurt is in their tails.
- The angel is king over them. His Hebrew name is Abaddon (destruction) . His Greek name is Apollyon (destroyer).
- This ends the "First Woe"
6) The 6th trumpet is blown
- a voice came from the 4 horned altar.
- It told the 6th angel to release the 4 angels bound at the Euphrates.
- These angels were prepared for this very moment to kill 1/3 of mankind.
- The troops numbered 200,000,000.
- The horses wore breastplates the color of fire, saphire, and sulfur.
- These horses had a lion's head and breathed fire.
- The fire, smoke and sulfer were 3 plagues that killed 1/3 of the people.
- The power of these horses came from their mouths and their sepent headed tails
- The rest of mankind still did not repent but continued to worship idols.
- The did not repent of murders, sorceries, sexual immorality, or thefts
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Deuteronomy 8 - Isaiah 26 – 2 Corinthians 9 – Revelations 8
Deuteronomy 8
- They should keep God's whole covenant so that it will go well with them and they will multiply.
- They should also remember all God has done for them over the past 40 years.
- God tested them and humbled them to see what was in their hearts.
- God humbled them and then fed them with manna.
- He fed them manna to let them know man doesn't live on bread alone but by the word of God.
- Their clothes didn't wear out after 40 years.
- God disciplined them like a father disciplines his son.
- Keeping God's commandments = walking in His ways and fearing Him.
- God is giving them a good land with springs, lands of wheat and barley, vines, figs, olives and honey, in which they will lack nothing.
- The land also had iron and copper buried there.
- They will bless God for the land He provides them.
- Moses warns them not to forget God's rules and commandments when they are full and living in good houses.
- (Living in plenty tempts us to not lean on God or feel like we need Him)
- Their hearts may turn away from God when their herd have multiplied and all that they have is multiplied.
- When they have all they ever wanted they will be tempted to forget all that God has done for them in Egypt, in the desert, providing manna and water, and in giving them all they will have.
- God sought to do them good.
- They need to beware of saying their power and might provided all that they have.
- The truth is God gives us power to get wealth, confirming His covenant.
- If they turn from God to other idols they will perish.
- Moses warns that Israel will perish like the lands they just conquered.
Isaiah 26
- Judah says the righteous nation that keeps faith will enter in.
- God keeps those who trust in Him at perfect peace.
- The Lord is our everlasting rock to trust in.
- God humbles the lofty people.
- The path of the righteous is level. He makes it level.
- They wait for God, remembering God is the desire of their soul.
- Their spirit seeks God and yearns for Him.
- God teaches the world righteousness.
- If favor were shown to the wicked they wouldn't learn righteousness.
- Isaiah wants others to see God's zeal for His people and be ashamed.
- God will give them peace.
- Isaiah says others have ruled over them but they will only remember what God has done.
- God will wipe out those other rulers
- God has glorified Himself by expanding Judah's borders.
- God's people prayed to Him when they were under His discipline.
- What does Isaiah mean by "giving birth only to wind?"
- They couldn't deliver the earth or make earth's inhabitants fall.
- The dead shall rise.
- God dwells in the dust and will awaken them.
- The earth (ground) will give birth to the dead.
- Judah tells the people to hide themselves until God's fury has passed.
- God will come and punish people for their iniquity.
- The earth will no longer cover the slain.
2 Corinthians 9
- Paul boasts to the Macedonians of the Achaians readiness.
- They have been ready for a year.
- The Corinthians zeal has stirred up many Macedonians.
- That is why Paul is sending his brothers to them, so that his boasting may prove true if the Macedonians visit them.
- Paul says he doesn't want to be proved wrong if people visit them.
- That's why Paul is sending the brothers to receive the Corinthians promised gift as a willing one not an exaction.
- Paul states his point that how they sow will be reflected in what they reap.
- Each person should give as he sees fit, not reluctantly because God loves a cheerful giver.
- God's grace will abound in them in all things and at all times, so that they may abound in every good work.
- Where does this quote by Paul come from in verse 9
- The same God who provides seeds and bread will also increase their their seed
- They will increase in a harvest of righteousness.
- They will be enriched to be generous which will produce thanksgiving to God
- Ministry isn't only supplying the needy but giving thanks to God.
- They will glorify God because of the Corinthians confession of the Gospel.
- Part of that is due to the generosity of the Corinthians.
- The Macedonians long for and pray for the Corinthians because of God's grace on them
Revelations 8
- The Lamb opened the 7th seal and there was 1/2 hour of silence.
- Seven angels were given 7 trumpets.
- An 8th angel came to the altar with a goldne censer and he was given much incense to give with the saints' prayers.
- The smoke of the incense rose before God from the hand of the angel.
- The angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the alter.
- The angel through the burning censer to earth causing storms and earthquakes.
- The 7 angels prepared their trumpets.
- Trumpets Blown
1) The 1st blown trumpet = hail and fire mixed with blood thrown to earth.
- 1/3 or earth burned, 1/3 of trees burned, all grass burned up.
2) The 2nd blown trumpet = A burning mountain was thrown into the sea.
- 1/3 of sea turned to blood, 1/3 of sea life die, 1/3 of ships destroyed.
3) The 3rd blown trumpet = a great star fell into the earth's rivers
- the star's name was Wormwood
- the waters became bitter and killed many people who drank from it
4) The 4th blown trumpet =
- 1/3 of sun, 1/3 of moon, 1/3 of stars were struck causing the light to darken.
- 1/3 of the day and 1/3 of the night with be darkeness.
- After this the eagle cried out as it flew, "Woe, woe, woe to those on the earth as they prepare for the final 3 trumpets"
- They should keep God's whole covenant so that it will go well with them and they will multiply.
- They should also remember all God has done for them over the past 40 years.
- God tested them and humbled them to see what was in their hearts.
- God humbled them and then fed them with manna.
- He fed them manna to let them know man doesn't live on bread alone but by the word of God.
- Their clothes didn't wear out after 40 years.
- God disciplined them like a father disciplines his son.
- Keeping God's commandments = walking in His ways and fearing Him.
- God is giving them a good land with springs, lands of wheat and barley, vines, figs, olives and honey, in which they will lack nothing.
- The land also had iron and copper buried there.
- They will bless God for the land He provides them.
- Moses warns them not to forget God's rules and commandments when they are full and living in good houses.
- (Living in plenty tempts us to not lean on God or feel like we need Him)
- Their hearts may turn away from God when their herd have multiplied and all that they have is multiplied.
- When they have all they ever wanted they will be tempted to forget all that God has done for them in Egypt, in the desert, providing manna and water, and in giving them all they will have.
- God sought to do them good.
- They need to beware of saying their power and might provided all that they have.
- The truth is God gives us power to get wealth, confirming His covenant.
- If they turn from God to other idols they will perish.
- Moses warns that Israel will perish like the lands they just conquered.
Isaiah 26
- Judah says the righteous nation that keeps faith will enter in.
- God keeps those who trust in Him at perfect peace.
- The Lord is our everlasting rock to trust in.
- God humbles the lofty people.
- The path of the righteous is level. He makes it level.
- They wait for God, remembering God is the desire of their soul.
- Their spirit seeks God and yearns for Him.
- God teaches the world righteousness.
- If favor were shown to the wicked they wouldn't learn righteousness.
- Isaiah wants others to see God's zeal for His people and be ashamed.
- God will give them peace.
- Isaiah says others have ruled over them but they will only remember what God has done.
- God will wipe out those other rulers
- God has glorified Himself by expanding Judah's borders.
- God's people prayed to Him when they were under His discipline.
- What does Isaiah mean by "giving birth only to wind?"
- They couldn't deliver the earth or make earth's inhabitants fall.
- The dead shall rise.
- God dwells in the dust and will awaken them.
- The earth (ground) will give birth to the dead.
- Judah tells the people to hide themselves until God's fury has passed.
- God will come and punish people for their iniquity.
- The earth will no longer cover the slain.
2 Corinthians 9
- Paul boasts to the Macedonians of the Achaians readiness.
- They have been ready for a year.
- The Corinthians zeal has stirred up many Macedonians.
- That is why Paul is sending his brothers to them, so that his boasting may prove true if the Macedonians visit them.
- Paul says he doesn't want to be proved wrong if people visit them.
- That's why Paul is sending the brothers to receive the Corinthians promised gift as a willing one not an exaction.
- Paul states his point that how they sow will be reflected in what they reap.
- Each person should give as he sees fit, not reluctantly because God loves a cheerful giver.
- God's grace will abound in them in all things and at all times, so that they may abound in every good work.
- Where does this quote by Paul come from in verse 9
- The same God who provides seeds and bread will also increase their their seed
- They will increase in a harvest of righteousness.
- They will be enriched to be generous which will produce thanksgiving to God
- Ministry isn't only supplying the needy but giving thanks to God.
- They will glorify God because of the Corinthians confession of the Gospel.
- Part of that is due to the generosity of the Corinthians.
- The Macedonians long for and pray for the Corinthians because of God's grace on them
Revelations 8
- The Lamb opened the 7th seal and there was 1/2 hour of silence.
- Seven angels were given 7 trumpets.
- An 8th angel came to the altar with a goldne censer and he was given much incense to give with the saints' prayers.
- The smoke of the incense rose before God from the hand of the angel.
- The angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the alter.
- The angel through the burning censer to earth causing storms and earthquakes.
- The 7 angels prepared their trumpets.
- Trumpets Blown
1) The 1st blown trumpet = hail and fire mixed with blood thrown to earth.
- 1/3 or earth burned, 1/3 of trees burned, all grass burned up.
2) The 2nd blown trumpet = A burning mountain was thrown into the sea.
- 1/3 of sea turned to blood, 1/3 of sea life die, 1/3 of ships destroyed.
3) The 3rd blown trumpet = a great star fell into the earth's rivers
- the star's name was Wormwood
- the waters became bitter and killed many people who drank from it
4) The 4th blown trumpet =
- 1/3 of sun, 1/3 of moon, 1/3 of stars were struck causing the light to darken.
- 1/3 of the day and 1/3 of the night with be darkeness.
- After this the eagle cried out as it flew, "Woe, woe, woe to those on the earth as they prepare for the final 3 trumpets"
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Deuteronomy 7 - Isaiah 25 – 2 Corinthians 8 – Revelations 7
Deuteronomy 7
- Moses is talking to the people just before they enter the promised land.
- He says that God will remove the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canannites, Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites (These nations were more abundant than the Israelites
- The people are supposed to completely wipe these people out when God gives them over to the Israelites.
- They shall NOT intermarry because those Israelites marrying from another nation will turn away from God and serve their spouse's gods.
- This would anger God and He would destroy them.
- They shall knock down their alters, burn the Asherim and carved images
- They should do this because they are God's holy people.
- God chose the Israelites over all nations to be His people.
- God didn't choose the Israelites because they were the most numerous (They were actually a very small nation)
- God is helping them because He made an oath with their fathers.
- That is why God brought them out of slavery in Egypt.
- God is the faithful God who keeps His covenants with steadfast love to the 1,000th generation
- He repays those who hate Him by destroying them.
- God will repay those who hate Him
- Moses tells the people to be careful to obey God's rules and statutes.
- Because they obey His laws, God keeps His covenant with them.
- God will bless, love, and multiply them.
- He will bless their pregnancies and crops and wine making and increase their herd numbers in this new land.
- They shall be blessed above ALL people.
- There won't be any sterile person or animal among them.
- God will keep them free from all diseases they faced in Egypt
- He will cause their enemies to get sick
- They shall consume all other people in the land and not pity them or be tempted to serve their gods.
- The Israelites shouldn't be afraid of bigger armies but should remember the Lord's faithfulness in bringing them out of Egypt and all God's mighty works there
- Could the people Moses is talking to now even remember Egypt because they were all supposed to die for unfaithfulness before the reached the promised land?
- God will do to their enemies what He did to the Egyptians.
- God will send hornets out to attack their enemies.
- They shouldn't be afraid because the great and awesome God is among them.
- What does Moses mean by they won't conquer them too quickly or the wild beasts would be too many?
- God will give the people over to them little by little until they are destroyed.
- Their kings will perish
- No one will be able to stand against them.
- They shall burn the conquered's gods
- The Israelites shouldn't even desire the gold or silver that was used to make the idols.
- Their idols are an abomination to God.
- The Israelites should not bring the abominable idols into their homes.
- They should hate the idols like God does and seek to destroy them all.
Isaiah 25
- Isaiah says he will exult God because He is God and has done wonderful things; plans formed of old, faithful and sure (from the beginning of time)
- God has made the great cities a pile of ruins.
- Because of this destruction strong people glorify God and ruthless nations fear Him.
- God is a stronghold for the poor and needy.
- God puts down the ruthless like a cloud puts down heat
- Which mountain is Isaiah referring to?
- God will swallow up death forever
- He will wipe away all tears and take away the reproach of His people because He said so.
- The people will know that this is their God who the have waited for and He will save them.
- They will rejoice and be glad in His salvation on that day.
- Moab will be trampled down on that mountain.
- The Lord will lay low Moab's pompous pride in spite of Moab's skilled hands.
- God will bring down the walls of Moab on that day.
2 Corinthians 8
- Paul wants to tell them about the grace of God given out in Macedonia.
- They were in severe affliction and poverty but had abundant joy and generosity
- They gave beyond their means of their own free will to give to the saints.
- They gave themselves first to the Lord then to Paul.
- Paul said they sent Titus to impart the same grace on the Corinthians.
- As they excel in faith, speech, knowledge, earnestness and in Paul's love for them, Paul reminds them to excel in the act of grace.
- Paul says this isn't a command but to show others their love in genuine.
- Paul reminds them of how Christ was rich but became poor for them.
- By Jesus' poverty we can become rich.
- Paul says his judgment is that this will benefit them.
- The Corinthians have been saved for a year (v.10)
- Paul tells them to make their actions match their spoken desires and do something.
- Readiness is more important than possession (what you have)
- Paul says that they should supply those without from their present abundance.
- Their abundance will later supply the Corinthians when they need it.
- Paul quotes from Exodus 16:18 where it says those who gathered much had nothing left over and those who gathered little had no lack.
- Paul thanks God for placing a heart of care into Titus.
- Titus is coming to them of his own desire.
- Who is this famous "preaching brother" who is going with Titus to them? (v.18)
- This famous brother is traveling with Paul and Titus now.
- They do these things to avoid blame for the generous gift.
- Paul's aim is to do what is honorable in God's sight and in the sight of men.
- Paul again states that he is sending this brother who has been tested and found earnest.
- Paul calls Titus his partner and other brothers messengers.
- Paul tells the Corinthians to give them proof of all the great things Paul has been saying about them, when Titus and this "famous brother" get there.
Revelation 7
- John saw 4 angels standing at the 4 corners of the earth holding back 4 winds.
- No winds blew on earth at this time.
- A fifth angel ascended from the rising sun.
- Didn't the sun turn black now?
- This 5th angel had the seal of the living God.
- The 5th angel called to the 4 angels holding back the winds not to release them until "we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads."
- The number sealed was 144,000 (12,000 from each tribe of the sons of Israel)
- The John saw a great crowd from all over the world, every tribe and nation, standing before the throne and the Lamb.
- They were clothed in white with palm branches in their hands.
- They cried out loudly, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb!"
- All the angels and elders encircled the throne and bowed down and worshipped God.
- They all said, "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving, and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever amen!"
- One elder asked John who those in white were.
- John told the man he should know.
- The elder replied that they were "the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
- Because they have been cleansed they stand before the throne night and day to serve Him.
- God's presence is their shelter.
- They shall not hunger or thirst or be struck by heat.
- The Lamb will be their shepherd and will guide them to streams of living water.
- God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
- Are these people saved already or is God giving these chosen people these things while they are still on earth, or have they died and are getting these things in heaven?
- Moses is talking to the people just before they enter the promised land.
- He says that God will remove the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canannites, Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites (These nations were more abundant than the Israelites
- The people are supposed to completely wipe these people out when God gives them over to the Israelites.
- They shall NOT intermarry because those Israelites marrying from another nation will turn away from God and serve their spouse's gods.
- This would anger God and He would destroy them.
- They shall knock down their alters, burn the Asherim and carved images
- They should do this because they are God's holy people.
- God chose the Israelites over all nations to be His people.
- God didn't choose the Israelites because they were the most numerous (They were actually a very small nation)
- God is helping them because He made an oath with their fathers.
- That is why God brought them out of slavery in Egypt.
- God is the faithful God who keeps His covenants with steadfast love to the 1,000th generation
- He repays those who hate Him by destroying them.
- God will repay those who hate Him
- Moses tells the people to be careful to obey God's rules and statutes.
- Because they obey His laws, God keeps His covenant with them.
- God will bless, love, and multiply them.
- He will bless their pregnancies and crops and wine making and increase their herd numbers in this new land.
- They shall be blessed above ALL people.
- There won't be any sterile person or animal among them.
- God will keep them free from all diseases they faced in Egypt
- He will cause their enemies to get sick
- They shall consume all other people in the land and not pity them or be tempted to serve their gods.
- The Israelites shouldn't be afraid of bigger armies but should remember the Lord's faithfulness in bringing them out of Egypt and all God's mighty works there
- Could the people Moses is talking to now even remember Egypt because they were all supposed to die for unfaithfulness before the reached the promised land?
- God will do to their enemies what He did to the Egyptians.
- God will send hornets out to attack their enemies.
- They shouldn't be afraid because the great and awesome God is among them.
- What does Moses mean by they won't conquer them too quickly or the wild beasts would be too many?
- God will give the people over to them little by little until they are destroyed.
- Their kings will perish
- No one will be able to stand against them.
- They shall burn the conquered's gods
- The Israelites shouldn't even desire the gold or silver that was used to make the idols.
- Their idols are an abomination to God.
- The Israelites should not bring the abominable idols into their homes.
- They should hate the idols like God does and seek to destroy them all.
Isaiah 25
- Isaiah says he will exult God because He is God and has done wonderful things; plans formed of old, faithful and sure (from the beginning of time)
- God has made the great cities a pile of ruins.
- Because of this destruction strong people glorify God and ruthless nations fear Him.
- God is a stronghold for the poor and needy.
- God puts down the ruthless like a cloud puts down heat
- Which mountain is Isaiah referring to?
- God will swallow up death forever
- He will wipe away all tears and take away the reproach of His people because He said so.
- The people will know that this is their God who the have waited for and He will save them.
- They will rejoice and be glad in His salvation on that day.
- Moab will be trampled down on that mountain.
- The Lord will lay low Moab's pompous pride in spite of Moab's skilled hands.
- God will bring down the walls of Moab on that day.
2 Corinthians 8
- Paul wants to tell them about the grace of God given out in Macedonia.
- They were in severe affliction and poverty but had abundant joy and generosity
- They gave beyond their means of their own free will to give to the saints.
- They gave themselves first to the Lord then to Paul.
- Paul said they sent Titus to impart the same grace on the Corinthians.
- As they excel in faith, speech, knowledge, earnestness and in Paul's love for them, Paul reminds them to excel in the act of grace.
- Paul says this isn't a command but to show others their love in genuine.
- Paul reminds them of how Christ was rich but became poor for them.
- By Jesus' poverty we can become rich.
- Paul says his judgment is that this will benefit them.
- The Corinthians have been saved for a year (v.10)
- Paul tells them to make their actions match their spoken desires and do something.
- Readiness is more important than possession (what you have)
- Paul says that they should supply those without from their present abundance.
- Their abundance will later supply the Corinthians when they need it.
- Paul quotes from Exodus 16:18 where it says those who gathered much had nothing left over and those who gathered little had no lack.
- Paul thanks God for placing a heart of care into Titus.
- Titus is coming to them of his own desire.
- Who is this famous "preaching brother" who is going with Titus to them? (v.18)
- This famous brother is traveling with Paul and Titus now.
- They do these things to avoid blame for the generous gift.
- Paul's aim is to do what is honorable in God's sight and in the sight of men.
- Paul again states that he is sending this brother who has been tested and found earnest.
- Paul calls Titus his partner and other brothers messengers.
- Paul tells the Corinthians to give them proof of all the great things Paul has been saying about them, when Titus and this "famous brother" get there.
Revelation 7
- John saw 4 angels standing at the 4 corners of the earth holding back 4 winds.
- No winds blew on earth at this time.
- A fifth angel ascended from the rising sun.
- Didn't the sun turn black now?
- This 5th angel had the seal of the living God.
- The 5th angel called to the 4 angels holding back the winds not to release them until "we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads."
- The number sealed was 144,000 (12,000 from each tribe of the sons of Israel)
- The John saw a great crowd from all over the world, every tribe and nation, standing before the throne and the Lamb.
- They were clothed in white with palm branches in their hands.
- They cried out loudly, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb!"
- All the angels and elders encircled the throne and bowed down and worshipped God.
- They all said, "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving, and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever amen!"
- One elder asked John who those in white were.
- John told the man he should know.
- The elder replied that they were "the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
- Because they have been cleansed they stand before the throne night and day to serve Him.
- God's presence is their shelter.
- They shall not hunger or thirst or be struck by heat.
- The Lamb will be their shepherd and will guide them to streams of living water.
- God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
- Are these people saved already or is God giving these chosen people these things while they are still on earth, or have they died and are getting these things in heaven?
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