Key verse: [Jeremiah, speaking to God] “See how the siege ramps have been built against the city walls! Through war, famine, and disease, the city [Jerusalem] will be handed over to the Babylonians, who will conquer it. Everything has happened just as you said.” (Jeremiah 32:24)
Something new to think on: most of God’s prophets and Prophetesses delivered the words of God. With Ezekiel, God adds visuals. There is usually some tableau or little one act play to illustrate God’s message. There are a couple examples in Ezekiel 24. Makes me wonder why God decided to add these visuals. Your thoughts?
Blessings,
Steve
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We’re reading The One Year Chronological Bible, New Living Translation (Tyndale). It’s best with your own copy. Or, copy and paste this link to the daily reading schedule:
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Highlights:
August 20 - Ezekiel 18:1-32 - God declares the end of making a person's descendants also pay for that person's sins: “The person who sins is the one who will die. The child will not be punished for the parent’s sins, and the parent will not be punished for the child’s sins. Righteous people will be rewarded for their own righteous behavior, and wicked people will be punished for their own wickedness.” If God won’t punish people for other people’s sins, why do we think we should?
Cross-Ref to Jesus in John 9:1-3 ("Who sinned, this man or his parents?")
August 20 “Do you think that I like to see wicked people die? says the Sovereign Lord. Of course not! I want them to turn from their wicked ways and live.” (Ezekiel 18:23)
August 21 It didn’t start with the golden calf! Israel worshipped idols while still in Egypt! (Ezekiel 20:4-8)
August 22 - Here’s a sobering thought: “Even common people oppress the poor, rob the needy, and deprive foreigners of justice.” (Ezekiel 22:29)
August 22 - Ezekiel 22:29-31 "Stand in the Gap!" - Here is the link to that Petra tune from the 80's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBEMJaIfY2g&app=desktop
and here is the link to the lyrics because it is absolutely worth it to have the lyrics in front of you while you listen to Petra sing them: https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics//standinthegap.html
August 23 - Jeremiah 21:11-12a - “Say to the royal family of Judah, ‘Listen to this message from the Lord! This is what the Lord says to the dynasty of David: “‘Give justice each morning to the people you judge! Help those who have been robbed; rescue them from their oppressors. Otherwise ....”
August 24 - Jeremiah 32:27 - "I am the Lord, the God of all the peoples of all the world."
August 25 - Jeremiah 39:10 - The Babylonian conqueror is kinder to the poor than God’s people were, leaving them in charge of all the food and not taking them away as captives (also in Jeremiah 52:16 on August 26th).
August 26 - Jeremiah 39:11-40:6 - Jeremiah released from prison ... by the Babylonians!
August 26 - 2Kings 25:8ff - The Temple is ransacked and destroyed ... as prophesied. Note the items still there from the time Solomon built the Temple
August 26 - 2 Chronicles 36:21 - God had prophesied a “sabbath rest for the land” and it was fulfilled ... it lies fallow for the 70 years God’s people are exiled to Babylon.
Even though it starts on the 26th, I am reserving Lamentations for next week.
Next week:
It’s a hodge-podge: Lamentations, some final pieces of Jeremiah, a little Obadiah, a lot of Ezekiel, a smidgen of 1st Chronicles, a Psalm(!), several prophetic references to Jesus, and a bunch of cross references to things Jesus said and did!
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