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Day 233 - Micah prophecy of Messiah

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRehpekLjfc My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year Come join us at any time!  Today’s Reading 8/21/2019     Day 233 Micah 5:1 – 7:20 Reflection | Today - Chapter 5 - Song of the Messiah; Assyria defeated; Israel will be victorious; reconstruction and demolition. Chapter 6 - What Israel has done wrong; a lawsuit;  Chapter 7 - lament and final liturgy.  (NOAB 5 notes and me) Background |  Background by Center of Biblical Studies.   More background by My Jewish Learning. Micah was a prophet from Judah, but prophesied to both Samaria and Jerusalem, capital cities of the northern and southern kingdoms. He prophesied before and after the fall of Samaria in 722 BC and into the reign of Judah’s king, Hezekiah. He was a contemporary of Isaiah. Unlike Isaiah, however, Micah was not part of the inner court. More like Amos, Micah was from the village of Moresheth...

Day 232 - Micah Tells All

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https://ohioanglican.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-prophet-micah.html My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year Come join us at any time!  Today’s Reading 8/20/2019     Day 232 Micah 1:1 – 4:13 Reflection | Today - Chapter 1 - Woe to Samaria and Judah for the way they treat people. Chapter 2 - Social evils denounced; there will be a faithful remnant Chapter 3 - bad rulers and the evil they do onto the people Chapter 4 - Peace and justice through faith in God; Exiles will return; (NOAB 5 notes and me) Background |  Background by the Center of Biblical Studies.   More background by My Jewish Learning. Micah was a prophet from Judah, but prophesied to both Samaria and Jerusalem, capital cities of the northern and southern kingdoms. He prophesied before and after the fall of Samaria in 722 BC and into the reign of Judah’s king, Hezekiah. He was a contemporary of Isaiah. Unlike Isaiah, however, Micah w...

Day 186 - Prophecy of Destruction to Neighboring Nations

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/did-archaeologists-just-prove-the-existence-of-prophet-isaiah My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 | Read the Bible in a Year | Come join us at any time! | Using The NRSV Daily Bible and other sources. Today’s Reading 7/5/2019     Day 186 Isaiah 17:1 – 23:18 Reflection | Today -   Chapter 17 -  Isaiah condemns Damascus to ruin Chapter 18-  Woe to the land of Cush Chapter 19 - I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian: water will dry up - canals will stink - rivers with wither Chapter 20 - God says I will destroy Egypt and Cush Chapter 21 - Prophecy against Babylon, Edom, Arabia Chapter 22  - Prophecy against Jerusalem - all your leaders fled Chapter 23 - Prophecy against Tyre - she will be a prostitute (NOAB 5, 2018 a.d.)  Background |  Background by Center of Biblical Studies.   More background by Chabad.org Lived in the later part of the 8th century B.C.E. during ...

Day 237 - Tuesday after the 13th Sunday after Pentecost

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Read |   Day 237 | Tuesday | August 25  Ezekiel 26: 15-21  Ezekiel 27: 1-25, 26-36  Ezekiel 28: 1-19, 20-24, 25-26  2   Kings 25: 3-7  Jeremiah 52: 6-11  Jeremiah 39: 2-10  Date | 587 BC Ezekiel , as depicted by   Michelangelo on the  Sistine Chapel ceiling via wikipedia Reading | Ezekiel - Tyre destruction; lament; Sidon - destruction; restoration of Israel; Jeremiah - famine and  destruction of Jerusalem Source | Tyndale | The One Year Chronological Bible NIV | ISBN 978-1-4143-5993-9 | kindle edition Next |  Day 238 | Wednesday | August 26 | Jeremiah 39: 11-18 Jeremiah 40: 1-6 2   Kings 25: 8-21 Jeremiah 52: 12-27 2   Chronicles 36: 15-21 Lamentations 1: 1-22 Following | Day 239 | Thursday | August 27 | Lamentations 2: 1-22 Lamentations 3: 1-66 Lamentations 4: 1-22 Day 240 | Friday | August 28 | Lamentations 5: 1-22 Obadiah 1: 1a, 1b-9, 10-14, 15-21 2   Kings 25: 22-26 Jeremiah 40: 7-12, 13-16 J...

Day 229 - Monday after the 12th Sunday after Pentecost

Read |    Day 229 | Monday | August 17 |   Ezekiel 5: 1-17  Ezekiel 6: 1-14  Ezekiel 7: 1-13, 14-27  Ezekiel 8: 1-18  Ezekiel 9: 1-11  Date | September 592 BC Reading | God talking to Ezekiel - sword and facial hair; because Israel is wicked so it will be scattered like the hair divided and the sword will strike everywhere - I will be avenged - destruction is coming from high mountains to low - strike your hands and mourn - the end is coming  because of the desolation of the people and idolatry in the Temple - they will be slaughtered. Source | Tyndale | The One Year Chronological Bible NIV | ISBN 978-1-4143-5993-9 | kindle edition Next |  Day 230 | Tuesday | August 18 |   Ezekiel 10: 1-22  Ezekiel 11: 1-13, 14-21, 22-25  Ezekiel 12: 1-20, 21-28  Ezekiel 13: 1-16, 17-23  +++ Collect of the Day: Proper 15 Almighty God, you have given your only Son to be for us a sacrifice for sin, and also an exampl...

Day 197 - Thursday after the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

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Read |  Day 197 | Thursday | July 16   Isaiah 18: 1-7  Isaiah 19: 1-25  Isaiah 20: 1-6  Isaiah 21: 1-10, 11-12, 13-17  Isaiah 22: 1-14, 15-25  Isaiah 23: 1-18  Date | Isaiah's prophecies against this readings towns may have been given between 714 - 701 BC. Background |  It now seems clear that all the Hebrew Bible received its final shape in the post-exilic, or Second Temple, period. … The earliest of the great prophets, Amos, Hosea, and Isaiah , lived in the eighth century. The book of Isaiah , however, includes not only oracles from the original prophet, but much material that was clearly composed after the Babylonian exile. (Accordingly, Isaiah 40–66 is called Second, or Deutero-, Isaiah, and chapters 56–66 are sometimes further distinguished as Third, or Trito-, Isaiah, although, as far as we know, there was only one prophet named Isaiah.) The books of the prophets were all edited in the Second Temple period, although we can...