Tag: sacrifice
October 17 – Changes Between the Testaments
Reading Daily Bible section entitled “Influences on a Dispersed People” Daily Bible section entitled “Hellenism and the Jews” Daily Bible section entitled “Judaism Under Roman Rule” Devotional After the Babylonian captivity ended, most Jews did not return to their homeland, instead choosing to remain in the land where they had built a life. Some were…
October 10 – Redistribution of the Population
Reading Neh. 7:1-73; 11:1-36; 12:1-26 Devotional Today’s reading covers some administrative details regarding the remnant of Israelites who returned from captivity. Nehemiah appointed his brother Hanani, the one who had reported Jerusalem’s disrepair to Nehemiah months earlier while he was in Susa, as being in charge of Jerusalem, along with Hananiah, the commander of the…
September 17 – GOD Corrects Job and His Friends
Reading Job 38:1-42:17 Devotional In an awesome conclusion to the book of Job, GOD speaks to Job out of the windstorm for the purpose of reminding Job of his proper place before GOD. GOD asks Job question after question, none of which Job is able to answer. Only GOD has the knowledge or power to…
August 16 – GOD Shows Ezekiel Israel’s Idolatry
Reading Eze. 8:1-11:25 Devotional In the year 591 B.C., 6 years since Ezekiel arrived in Babylon, he was sitting in his house along with the elders of Judah when GOD spoke to Ezekiel in a vision. The LORD appeared to Ezekiel the same as He had previously the first time He spoke to Ezekiel, when…
July 28 – Half-hearted Won’t Work
Reading Jer. 7:1-9:26 Devotional GOD’s case against Judah is a long list of sins. In today’s reading GOD rebukes them for their idolatry, stealing, murder, adultery, perjury (lying or misrepresenting the truth), human sacrifice, greed, and evil intentions toward their neighbor. In addition to all these things, GOD says that their allegiance to Him was…
July 21 – A Sober Reminder from GOD
Reading Isa. 65:1-66:24 2 Kings 19:37 2 Chron. 33:10-17 Devotional Isaiah concludes his prophecy with a very sober reminder from GOD: 1 Thus says the LORD, “Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. Where then is a house you could build for Me? And where is a place that I may rest?…
July 17 – Isaiah Foretells the Messiah’s Suffering and Victory
Reading Isa. 51:1-54:3 Devotional In today’s reading, GOD foretells through the prophet Isaiah how the coming Messiah will live and ultimately give Himself as the sacrifice to save the world. For Christians, Isa. 53 is an often-referred-to passage of Scripture. As a result we need to ensure that we slow down long enough to grasp…
July 10 – Hezekiah’s Last Years
Reading 2 Kings 18:13-16; 20:1-11 Isa. 38:9-20 2 Chron. 32:25-30 2 Kings 20:12-19 2 Chron. 32:31, 1-8 2 Kings 18:17-25; 2 Chron. 32:9-15 2 Kings 18:26-35; 2 Chron. 32:16, 18-19 2 Kings 18:36-37; 19:1-36 2 Chron. 32:21a-b, 22-23 2 Kings 20:20-21a; 2 Chron. 32:32-33a Devotional In his latter years, Hezekiah had problems with Sennacherib, king of…
July 2 – Hezekiah: A Son Unlike His Father
Reading Isa. 21:11-12; 34:5-17; 21:13-17; 23:1-18 2 Kings 16:7-18 2 Chron. 28:22-27a 2 Kings 16:20b; 18:1-7a Devotional Ahaz king of Judah was a very wicked man. Consider some of what the Bible says he did: 10 Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet [the] king of Assyria. He saw an altar in Damascus and…