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04/07/2025 – Day 281 – Acts – Chapter 5 – 6 / 5: 2 – 5 Ananias and Sapphira – “Lying to the Holy Spirit” (Post 1 of 2)

Two prior cycle commentary posts by way of Matthew Henry’s commentary: 1) 02/22/2021 covering the appearance of Gamaliel, teacher of Saul of Tarsus, who we know as Paul the …

05/04/2025 – Day 280 – Hebrews – Chapters 5 – 7 / 6: 4-6 – Is it possible to fall out of salvation?

In our first cycle, there are three posts to this reading dating 02/21/2021, including in large part commentary on “Who was Melchizedek?”. Today’s commentary on three verses is by …

04/05/2025 – Day 279 – Jonah – Chapters 1 – 4 /. The meaning and significance of Jonah’s message for us today.

For this reading, there is a post dated from 02/20/2021 that gave a summary excerpt of the book of Jonah from Halley’s Bible Handbook. For this post, I am …

04/05/2025 – Day 278 – Proverbs 28

For this reading, we had posts on two previous cycles dated 02/19/2021 and 12/02/2022. The verses commented on were: vs. 5 , 9 and 23.

I am covering here …

04/03/2025 – Day 277 – Psalm – Chapters 117 – 118 (Universal Call to Praise and Thanksgiving to Victory, respectively) // Indeed! Keep repeating: “His faithful love endures forever.”

“Praise the LORD, all nations! Glorify Him, all peoples! For great is His faithful love to us; the LORD’s faithfulness endures forever. Hallelujah!” Psalm 117

This is …

04/01/2025 – Day 276 – 2 Chronicles – Chapters 10 -14 / Chapters 10 – 12 – Rehoboam, king of Judah. 933 – 916. Summary commentary from “Halley’s Bible Handbook.”

If I haven’t mentioned it yet, 2 Chronicles covers basically the same ground as Kings 1 & II, except 2 Chronicles omits the narratives about the kings of the seceded …

03/31/2025 – Day 275 – Numbers 29 – 32 / 31: 13-24 – “Their very survival as the holy community of faith was at stake…” / Questions without answers except prayer! Thoughts?

From “The Apologetics Study Bible” footnotes to our reading:

“31: 13-24. The purpose of holy wars was the eradication of impure elements, whether persons or property, from a given geographic region. …

04/30/2025 – Day 274 – Acts – Chapter 3 & 4 // “Preaching in Solomon’s Portico” (Acts 3: 11- 26)- “Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus.”

For today’s reading: I may use commentary from one of following three sources so designated: 1). “The Daily Study Bible Series – The Acts of the Apostles Revised Edition” …

03/29/2025 – Day 272 – Obadiah – Chapter 1 (only chapter to the book) / vs. 15 – 18 – Commentary on “The Day of the Lord is near” section

First, if you aren’t familiar with the book of Obadiah, I recommend reading the post dated 02/13/2021, a book summary from Haley’s Bible Handbook. Now, let’s take a look …

03/27/2025 – Day 270 – Psalm – Chapters 114 – 116 / Three cycles of comments and I repeat 116:15 for the third time, a first perhaps never to be repeated.

“The death of His faithful ones is valuable in the Lord’s sight.” Psalm 116:15

It doesn’t make sense to the world. But we are in the world but not …