May 30 Readings
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Today's Reading is Isaiah 48; Psalms 60
Isaiah is speaking to the remnant. Israel is seen as stubborn and rebellious, yet God is faitfhul (v. 4). What Isaiah prophesied here about Israel is not very complimentary! They were hypocritcal (v. 1-2), stubborn (v. 4). Notice the word IF in v. 18-20:
18 If only you had paid attention to my commands,
your peace would have been like a river,
your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
19 Your descendants would have been like the sand,
your children like its numberless grains;
their name would never be cut off
nor destroyed from before me."
20 Leave Babylon,
flee from the Babylonians!
Announce this with shouts of joy
and proclaim it.
Send it out to the ends of the earth;
say, "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob."
How may people returned to Israel under Zerubbabel? Only 50,000 to rebuild the temple and the walls! What happened to the rest of them? Thye did not want to lesve their comfortable lives in Babylon.
Sometimes we claim promises from the Bible, which is good! BUT we ignore those little pesky words called prepositions, just as IFs, ANDs, or BUTs and we pay the consequences for that just like the people of Judah.
King James Version with Web Encyclopedia Links:Isaiah 48; Psalms 60
Moeller on Isaiah
Resources for Isaiah
Guzik on Isaiah
Peter Pett on Isaiah 40-48
Isaiah 48 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Psalm 60 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Dr. Thomas Constable Study Notes is a PDF file, open with Adobe Acrobatic Reader
Spurgeon-Psalm 60
This psalm is of David. According to the NIV Study Bible, When David fought Aram Naharaim and Aram Zorah and when Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt. (2samuel 18.3). verse 103 David lamented over God's rejection of the Israelites. Verse 4-9, David plead to God for help, knowing that God would answer his prayers. Verse 10-12 David is confident of victory that God will give Israel. The verse that spoke to me is verse 12 'With God we will gain the victory and he will trample down our enemies.'
Links to Commentaries and other References - Old Testament
Jesus Saves
How to Become a Christian
Please send a comment if something spoke to you today from the passages, links or thoughts that I have shared with you.
Why don't you bookmark the blog you are reading right now?
Check out the Link Page for the One Year Bible Readings. Three Years Bible Readings and the Back to the Bible Devotional Blogs
THREE YEARS BIBLE READING PLAN
Year 1 Law and History; Year 2 Poetry and Prophecy and Year 3 New Testament. You can start with any of the three years and finsh the Bible at a slower pace in three years
OR You can read Years 1-3 and go through the Bible in One Year
Today's Reading is Isaiah 48; Psalms 60
Isaiah is speaking to the remnant. Israel is seen as stubborn and rebellious, yet God is faitfhul (v. 4). What Isaiah prophesied here about Israel is not very complimentary! They were hypocritcal (v. 1-2), stubborn (v. 4). Notice the word IF in v. 18-20:
18 If only you had paid attention to my commands,
your peace would have been like a river,
your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
19 Your descendants would have been like the sand,
your children like its numberless grains;
their name would never be cut off
nor destroyed from before me."
20 Leave Babylon,
flee from the Babylonians!
Announce this with shouts of joy
and proclaim it.
Send it out to the ends of the earth;
say, "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob."
How may people returned to Israel under Zerubbabel? Only 50,000 to rebuild the temple and the walls! What happened to the rest of them? Thye did not want to lesve their comfortable lives in Babylon.
Sometimes we claim promises from the Bible, which is good! BUT we ignore those little pesky words called prepositions, just as IFs, ANDs, or BUTs and we pay the consequences for that just like the people of Judah.
King James Version with Web Encyclopedia Links:Isaiah 48; Psalms 60
Moeller on Isaiah
Resources for Isaiah
Guzik on Isaiah
Peter Pett on Isaiah 40-48
Isaiah 48 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Psalm 60 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Dr. Thomas Constable Study Notes is a PDF file, open with Adobe Acrobatic Reader
Spurgeon-Psalm 60
This psalm is of David. According to the NIV Study Bible, When David fought Aram Naharaim and Aram Zorah and when Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt. (2samuel 18.3). verse 103 David lamented over God's rejection of the Israelites. Verse 4-9, David plead to God for help, knowing that God would answer his prayers. Verse 10-12 David is confident of victory that God will give Israel. The verse that spoke to me is verse 12 'With God we will gain the victory and he will trample down our enemies.'
Links to Commentaries and other References - Old Testament
Jesus Saves
How to Become a Christian
Please send a comment if something spoke to you today from the passages, links or thoughts that I have shared with you.
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