Today we begin the New Testament! The four gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke & John) will be intertwined chronologically (as much as they can be). Skeptics will point to the differences in these four accounts as evidence that the Bible is not reliable; I disagree. If four people witness a traffic accident, they will give four …
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Read-Through-The-Bible [10.17.19]
Summarizing 400 years of political and religious history in a few paragraphs is not easy. Remember how much information you had to study in high school for American History? And we’re a relatively young nation, just 243 years old! (Ummm….I remember the bicentennial celebrations. I feel old!) I’m sharing information from the commentary in my …
Read-Through-The-Bible [10.16.19]
Have you ever heard of the word “diaspora?” It’s often used specifically to refer to Jewish people, but it means simply the dispersion of any people from their original homeland. We’ve seen that many Jews returned to Palestine with Ezra and Nehemiah, but what about those who decided not to? For the next four hundred …
Read-Through-The-Bible [10.15.19]
We have finished reading the Old Testament. Today and tomorrow my chronological Bible reading consists of commentary about what is called the “Intertestamental Period” (between the Testaments). Did you ever wonder why the Bible is called the “Old” and “New” Testaments? The word testament means “covenant.” Everything we’ve read up to now has described the …
Read-Through-The-Bible [10.14.19]
Today we finish up the last of the genealogies in 1 Chronicles 1-9. The commentary in this chronological Bible suggests that these were compiled in the time period after the Jews had returned from exile and had rebuilt the Temple and the walls of the city. They were rebuilding not only their physical surroundings but …
The Way Of The Word 