The Bible in Time...

Ludwig Valcanbrosh - Tower of Babel My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 1/4/2019 Day 4 Genesis 9:18 - 11:32 Reflection The genealogies that are listed in Genesis refer not only to a family line but also the land that they inhabited in the middle east. Here is a guess from the NOAB5 p. 23. Might have to play with the picture in order to see the detail. <see Source page> Tower of Babel is the story answering the question why are there so many languages? Meditation: What will happen to us as our languages will be instantly translated by our phones and computers making us understand one another? Will we listen to each other? Prayer: Lord, my ears hear you knocking today. Steer me away from the over-emphasis on what I might accomplish and steer me toward what you would have me do. Your will be done and not mine. ...

Opening Sentence From the rising of the sun to its setting my Name shall be great among the nations, and in every place incense shall be offered to my Name, and a pure offering; for my Name shall be great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts. + Malachi 1:11 Read | Thursday | 21 January 2016 | Ps. 37:1–18; Ps. 37:19–42; Gen. 11:1–9; Heb. 6:13–20; John 4:1–15 Reflection | Psalm 37  -  Literary type | Wisdom  |  click here . Don't worry; Trust in God and do good; the wicked will perish, but our ways are firm in the Lord; the mouths of the righteous speak wisdom and justice;  Genesis 11 - Tower of Babel; they could do anything if they are one; let us confuse and scatter their language; they scattered to the whole earth. Hebrews 6 - God's promises will come to pass; Abraham believed in God; Jesus is the promise of God and the new great high priest for our salvation. John 4 - Jesus breaks the social norms to not only ...

Read  Genesis 11:1-26, 1 Chronicles 1:24-27, Genesis 11:27-14:24 Background | With the life of Abram and Sarai, the Chronological Bible gives two dates - a traditional chronology and one that is more recently rendered by scholarship. All dates are approximate (good guesses). Dates of Reading | prior to and including | 2166 BC | 2000 BC Reading | Tower of Babel answers the question of why there are so many languages and people scattered around the planet - the writer points to the  arrogance  of humanity to make a name for themselves; linage for Shem to Abram (long lifed people); Abram married Sarai and Sarai was barren (at this time); God calls Abram to go to a new land; Abram and Sarai  escape  a famine and got to Eygpt and a bizarre story of Abram protecting himself and  retribution for sin; Abram and Lot separate; Abram the Hebrew get a report of an upcoming attack on Lot and he saves Lot; Abram tithes and is blessed by the priest/king ...