Prophecy
Psalm 2, Psalm 22, Psalm 27 Ryan: Today marks the beginning of a couple of days of “Messianic psalms.” These are psalms that reference the Messiah, either directly or indirectly. Psalm 22, specifically, is full of “prophecies” that are very plainly seen in the life of Jesus. Let’s recount a few: the opening sentence, “My [...]
Deuteronomy 17:14-20, Ex. 22:28, Deut 16:18, Deut. 17:8-13 (Deut. 1:9-18), Ex. 23:8, Lev. 19:15, Deut. 24:17-18, Deut. 16:19-20, Deut. 5:20, Ex. 23:1-2, Ex. 23:7, Deut. 19:16-21, Deut. 19:15, Deut. 24:16, Deut. 25:1-3, Deut. 21:22-23 Ryan: A couple years ago, I participated in the Kansas Bible Bowl that our church hosts each year. That particular year, [...]
Continue reading about Day 58: Law & Order, Israelite edition
Numbers 22-24 Ryan: There is a lot of really good poetry that comes forth from the mouth of Balaam during today’s reading. Now Balaam was a pagan diviner, but even so, God used him as a messenger to spread the news about Israel’s favor in the eyes of the Lord. There are so many stanzas [...]
Genesis 47:29-50:26 Ryan: Remember the heinous act that Reuben committed with his step-mother against his father that both Samantha and I wrote about back on day 15? That act has now officially come back to bite Reuben in the rear. When Jacob was on his death bed, he called for the sons of Joseph, and [...]
Genesis 27-28 Ryan: I love the story of Jacob’s “ladder” that he dreams about in Genesis 28 primarily because it is the first messianic prophecy that is fairly overt. There are a couple of others that we’ve passed on the way so far, but they are pretty vague and definitely not very obvious. However, in [...]
Genesis 15-17 Ryan: While a very uncomfortable topic, one of the more interesting segments from today’s reading regards the institution of circumcision as man’s sign of entering into the covenant with God (his “signature,” so to speak). Any man who was circumcised in Abraham’s household was a part of the covenant, anyone who was not [...]
Preparing for death The high priest, Caiaphas, had all the chief priests and elders over to his “palace” to come up with a plot to kill Jesus (v. 3-4). They decide not to arrest him during the festival, because they were afraid that the people would riot; they therefore decided to wait until after the [...]
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