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09/25/2022 – Day 210 – I Thessalonians 1 – 3/ “May He make your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.”

Both the themes and bible footnotes today come from my Apologetics Study Bible:

Themes in Thessalonians

“Thessalonicca, Macedonia’s largest and most important city, was a wealthy commercial center at the intersection of …

09/24/2022 – Day 209 – Ezekiel 37 – 42 // Commentary – The defeat and disposal of “Gog”, an appropriate prelude to the vision of the coming messianic King and kingdom in chapters 40 through 48.

Last cycle, 12/12/2020 reading, Our posts covered chapter 37, the Valley of Dry Bones, along with the New Temple prophesied in chapters 40 through 42. Check them out, logged …

09/20/2022 – Day 205 – Leviticus 19 – 21 – “…’Be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.” Leviticus 19: 1 – 2. // (Haven’t we crisscrossed this just recently…haha. We’ll call it a “good” start)

Is anyone out there still reading and praying through Leviticus, God’s Law, in our seventh Monday? Well, if we follow this one verse , we would discover never ending …

09/13/2022 – Day 198 – Leviticus 16 – 18

Today, I would like to share the summary commentary of Halley’s Bible Handbook for these chapters:

“Chapter 16 – Annual Atonement

This was on the 10th day of the 7th month (see …

09/12/2022 – Day 197 – Luke 21 & 22 / “We must live forever in the shadow of eternity, in the certainty that we are men who are fitting or unfitting themselves to appear in the presence of God. There can be nothing so thrilling as the Christian life.” William Barclay – pg 261 – Barclay’s commentary

Barclay points out appropriately I think that Luke – Chapter 21 is one of the most difficult chapters of the Bible. So, I am going to outline the four …

09/11/2022 – Day 196 – Colossians 1 – 2 / “In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, ‘That is mine!’.” Abraham Kuyper (1837 – 1920) / See Colossians 1:16

Before I get into our reading, below is a biography of Abraham Kuyper that I encourage you to give a quick read. It is never about the messenger, But …

09/10/2020 – Day 195 – Ezekiel 25 – 30 – Judgment against the Nations

My sources for this reading:

Halley’s Bible Handbook – (*A)

The Apologetics Study Bible – (*B)

Chapter 25. Ammon, Moab, Edom, Philistia

“These four nations were Judah’s closest neighbors, who rejoiced in Judah’s …

09/09/2022 – Day 194 – Proverbs 10 // “Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.” (vs 6)

And then again a repeat of the 2nd part in verse 11.

I would like to share a footnote in my Evidence Bible on verse 18: “The one …

09/08/2022 – Day 193 – Psalms 81 – 83 // Praying the Psalms…

“How long will you defend the unjust and show partiality to the wicked? (vs 82:2)

“They know nothing, they understand nothing. They walk about in darkness; all the foundations …