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08/03/2024 – Day 062 – Isaiah – Chapters 45 – 50 // 45: “God Alone is the Savior” ; 46: “There is No One Like God”; 47: “The Fall of Babylon” ; 48: “Israel Must Leave Babylon”; 49: “The Servant Brings Salvation”; 50: “The Obedient Servant”

Last cycle, there is a posting dated 04/30/2022 – “Predictive Prophecy as Evidence of Deity” – 45:1

For “Chapters 44,45. Cyrus“, here is the question that Halley’s Bible Handbook …

08/02/2024 – Day 061 – Job – Chapters 17 & 18 / “Hope that is seen is not hope.” Romans 8: 24 – 25; 2 Corinthians 4:18; and, Hebrews 11:1

A prior cycle post, dated 04/29/22 ties into the post here from a different verse, asking the question: “Is Job waffling in his faith here?”

“Where then is my hope? …

08/01/2024 – Day 060 – Psalm – Chapters 24 – 26

We have a prior year cycle post for this day #060 : “Fear of the Lord” – see verse 25:12, dated 07/22/2020.

I would like to share very short pithy …

07/29/2024 – Day 057 – Matthew – Chapters 23 – 25 / “Jesus looked to the 2nd coming as a definite historical event” / The horrific “reality of hell”.

We have for postings from the last two cycles on this Day 057 reading:

‘- 09/13/2020 – 1 of 3 – Re: Ch. 24 and “End Times” / – 09/13/2020 …

07/28/2024 – Day 056 – Romans – Chapters 15 – 16 / 16:17 – “Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned , and avoid them.”

Let me add verse 18, right after verse 17: “For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly , and by smooth …

07/27/2024 – Day 055 – Isaiah – Chapters 40 – 44 / Matthew Henry commentaries by chapter. (two links attached)/ fyi: Today is “National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day”

For the last 2 cycles on Day 055, you can search on:

04/23/2022: “Magnificent Rhapsodies of the Future” – Chapter excerpt summaries from “Halley’s Bible Handbook.”

07/25/2020 – Messiah Prophecies foretold …

07/26/2024 – Day 054 – Job – Chapters 15 – 16 / Once again, Fellowship generating questions attached, it takes a “village”/”community”.

Last cycles post dated 04/22/20222 zeroed in on verse 16:20.

Today, I am going to start with the 10,000 foot view of these chapters by way of excerpts from “Halley’s Bible …

07/25/2024 – Day 053 – Psalm – Chapters 21 – 23 / Ch. 22 – A messianic prophecy fulfilled 1000 years later. (fyi: Crucifixions didn’t exist in 1000 b.c.)

Last Cycle’s post for this day includes a John Gill commentary on 21:4: “He asked life from You, and You gave it o him — Length of days forever …

07/24/2024 – Day 052 – Judges – Chapter 12 – 16 / “Samson afflictions were the means of bringing him to deep repentance.”

https://www.christianity.com/bible/commentary/matthew-henry-concise/judges/16

I can still recall how the Samson and Delilah story so bothered me as a kid. How could someone so gifted be so stupid? I encourage you to read …

07/23/2024 – Day 051 – Genesis – Chapter 28 – 31 / “A testimony to the truthfulness of the Bible: No other book narrates with such utter candor the weaknesses of its heroes, and things so contrary to ideals which it aims to promote.”

Two cycles past, dated 07/21/2020, there is a post on Jacob’s vision at Bethel, with a quote from John Wesley.

Here is the commentary on these verses from “The Apologetics Study …