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10/15/2022 – Day 230 – Daniel 7 – 12 – Too rich in prophecy!: I highly recommend “On the Way to the Future – Daniel’s Visions and the Believer’s Hope” by Ray C. Stedman as a great tool to help sort it out!

Stedman starts out his commentary in Chapter 7 by proposing an apt analogy: For the early astronauts in particular, countdowns were nerve-wracking, “even for astronauts with the ‘right stuff’!” …

10/28/2025 – Day 243 – Proverbs 20 & 21// 20:16 – a required look up with John Gill commentary

“Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if he does it for a wayward woman.”

Proverbs 20:16

As to the garment clause, John …

10/23/2022 – Day 238 – 1 Timothy Chapters 4 – 6 // 6:16 – Illustrated example of letting scripture testify to scripture.

https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/csb-apologetics/twisted-scripture-1-timothy-6-16.html

Ooops, I take that back, this is not a good illustration of comparing verses for each side of an argument to determine the appropriate biblical interpretation. Check …

10/14/2022 – Day 229 – Proverbs 17 – 18 // Interesting amongst all the words of wisdom, what verses do we highlight? And don’t they change at different points in our journey here?

Henry H. Halley, in my “Halley’s Bible Handbook” , capsulizes verse themes in about 3 or 4 sentences per chapter. We no doubt could pick out these verses based …

10/14/2022 – Day 229 – Proverbs 17 – 18 // Which verses seemed to really grab you?

My mother told me early on from childhood: “Jimmy, if you have just one true friend your entire lifetime, consider yourself blessed.” Brother John, you will be …

10/12/2022 – Day 227 – 1 Chronicles 5 – 9 / “What is the relevance of the genealogies in the Bible?”

https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-genealogies.html

Soli Deo Gloria!

10/11/2022 – Day 226 – Numbers 1 – 4 // Why did the Lord command Moses to take a census of the Israelite community?

I am going to share short excerpts from Matthew Henry’s commentary to help us out . I mean short in relative terms, given that Matthew’s commentary book comes in …

10/24/2022 – Day 224 – 2 Thessalonians 1 – 3 // Day of the Lord

First I will share Halley’s Bible Handbook’s commentary – pg 629:

”Written probably around A.D. 52, only a few weeks, or months, after the First Epistle that Paul had spoken of …