Daily Devotional

Aug 9

The Answer to THE Age-old Question

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), August 9 Jeremiah presents a question asked by the righteous in every generation: "Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal so treacherously?" (Jeremiah 12:1b) The wicked often appear happier than those who remain faithful to the LORD. Their happiness, however, is temporal. It is founded on appearances, earthly positions, and the abundance of possessions. And it is based only on today.... Read More

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Aug 8

Distorted Worship

The One Year® Chronological Bible, NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), August 8 You may not have a "god" on a shelf, but you still may be trusting in the fraudulent claims of an idol. An idol is anything a person trusts in, other than God, for health, safety, protection, security, etc. Idolatry is distorted worship. God proved his abundant provision in the garden of Eden. He met Israel's every need in the wilderness. He gave Israel the land of Canaan, with developed fields and... Read More

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Aug 7

The Golden Image of Intolerance

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), August 7 Daniel and his friends live in a nation of intolerance. Nebuchadnezzar constructs a big, shiny, and expensive image and makes worship of this image public policy, "To you it is commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages . . . whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace" (Dan. 3:4,6). The plain of Dura in the province of Babylon is a zone of... Read More

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Aug 6

The Hardship of Ministry

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), August 6 Jeremiah has just delivered one of his strongest messages to date. He promises disaster, while the false prophets tell the people that God will not act against Israel, for the sake of His temple. He preaches repentance while the priests and prophets condone idol worship. Since they cannot shut Jeremiah up, they go on the offensive by attacking him verbally. Jeremiah doesn't engage in verbal warfare, however, but... Read More

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Aug 5

God's Rescue From Selfish Ambition

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), August 5 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the instruction of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch: 'You said, "Woe is me now! For the Lord has added grief to my sorrow. I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.'"... Read More

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Aug 4

The Battleground For Righteousness and Truth

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), August 4 After Josiah's death, his son Jehoiakim begins to reign. Under his leadership Judah returns to full-blown idolatry. This spiritual declension occurs twenty-three years into Jeremiah's nearly fifty years of prophetic ministry to Judah. Jeremiah responds to Judah's idolatry and announces an impending Babylonian captivity, "And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations... Read More

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Aug 3

When God Sweeps Away The Earth

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), August 3 Zephaniah begins prophesying 40-50 years prior to the Babylonian captivity. He speaks of a coming day ("the day of the LORD" is mentioned at least twelve times in the book of Zephaniah)--a day when God will set up housekeeping and sweep the earth. Men and animals, birds of the air and fish of the sea will be swept away. Sin will have so infiltrated every area of creation that God will, once again, destroy... Read More

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Aug 2

The "Tough Love" of God

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013) - August 2 Sometimes love isn't tender and sweet; sometimes love is tough. Sometimes God's love is tough. People may not like to think of God's tough love, but it is what it is. God speaks to the king's family in Judah: "You are Gilead to me, the head of Lebanon; yet l surely will make you a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited. I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; they... Read More

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Aug 1

The Tale of Two Cities

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), August 1 Josiah inherited a kingdom of idolatry. While cleansing the land of its comprehensive idolatry, however, the Book of the Law was discovered in the Temple (hidden in the place where it should have been taught) and read before all the people. Josiah and the great city of Jerusalem (where God had placed His Name) returned to God and experienced great revival. Nineveh, located in Assyria, was built by Nimrod after the... Read More

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Jul 31

Looking for Truth

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 31 The LORD commands that a search be made of Jerusalem to see if the city possessed one person "who executes judgment, who seeks the truth" (Jer. 5:1). Sadly, in the holy city that houses Israel's temple and the home of the high priest, not one person who deals honestly and seeks truth can be found! Perhaps only the poor of the city were searched, so God calls for another search-this time among... Read More

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Jul 30

Fired Up Prophets

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 30 When God calls Jeremiah, He puts His words in Jeremiah's mouth, and they burn like fire. The false prophets, however, produce only wind, "'And the prophets become wind, for the word is not in them. Thus it shall done to them." Therefore thus says LORD God of hosts: 'Because you speak this word, behold, I will make My words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them""... Read More

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Jul 29

Forsaken God

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 29 Adam and Eve are born with needs: aesthetic, physical, relational, and spiritual. God meets each of those needs in the garden of Eden. The garden is beautiful and plentiful, and they walk with God in its midst. Adam and Eve experience these same needs after the Fall. Though life becomes more difficult after the Fall, God anticipates and meets the couple's every need, including salvation. God promises Eve a... Read More

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Jul 28

God's Fingerprint

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 28 Wrinkles and gravity change appearance, but fingerprints never change. An individual's fingerprints develop six weeks after conception, and they are the last things to decompose after death. Not only that, fingerprints are always and only individual-no two fingerprints have ever been found alike in many billions of people. Left on hard surfaces, latent fingerprints do not survive more than a short time. Left on... Read More

Posted by Blog Archive at Jul 28

Jul 27

Singled Out By God

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 27 "For thus says the High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is holy: 'I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones'" (Is. 57:15). "The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based navigation system made up of a network of 24 satellites placed into... Read More

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Jul 26

Isaiah's Passover Lamb

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 26 After God promises the first couple that a seed from Eve will crush the head of the seed of the serpent, He sacrifices an innocent animal to cover the couple's nakedness. God provides a substitute in the garden of Eden and establishes a pattern. Abel follows that pattern when he sacrifices the firstborn of his flock as an acceptable sacrifice to the LORD. Noah copies the same pattern when he offers the clean animals... Read More

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Jul 25

Manufactured Light

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 25 "Who among you fears the LORD? Who obeys the voice of His Servant? Who walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD and rely upon his God. Look, all you who kindle a fire, who encircle yourselves with sparks: Walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks you have kindled-this you shall have from My hand: you shall lie down in torment" (Is. 50:10-11). During the days of... Read More

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Jul 24

Foretelling

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 24 Several times in Isaiah 48, Isaiah mentions the importance of God's foretelling: "I have declared the former things from the beginning; they went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to hear it. Suddenly I did them, and they came to pass" (48:3). "Even from the beginning I have declared it to you; before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you, lest you should say, 'My idol has done them,... Read More

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Jul 23

The Veracity of Scripture and Words of Comfort

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 23 "The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever" (Is. 40:8). From the very beginning of Genesis, God speaks. That which is nothing becomes something at the sound of His voice. God promises Adam and Eve that disobedience will result in death--and it does. God promises the couple that a Seed will come to crush the head of the serpent. He will come! God promises Abraham and his... Read More

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Jul 22

Symptom of Narcissism

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 22 How can someone who began so well end so poorly? Hezekiah experienced God's intervention on his behalf when God killed 185,000 of the opposing army. Hezekiah also experienced God's intervention in nature when God caused the sun to go back 10 steps. Pretty cool stuff. Hezekiah's experiences make him cocky--so cocky that when the Babylonian king's son hears about Hezekiah's healing and the... Read More

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Jul 21

Great Men and Humility

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 21 Leaders who are decisive and live humbly before the Lord attract followers. As the Assyrians laid siege around Jerusalem, King Hezekiah's faith in God shone. He had an it-may-be faith when he beseeched Isaiah's intercession: "It may be that the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which... Read More

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Jul 20

The Enemy Speaks in the Vernacular

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 20 Satan was revealed as cunning in Eden's garden; he spoke to the woman in her language. Even today the enemy questions God's goodness, His power, and His word. He slanders God in a language that people understand, in hopes that they will listen to him instead of God. It worked in the garden of Eden with the first couple, and it has worked ever since. The enemy, like Assyria's field commander, speaks in the... Read More

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Jul 19

Ministers for Hire

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 19 Spiritual leaders who abuse their role for personal profit misrepresent God to their people. Judah's leaders used their platform to enrich themselves; they were not men of conviction but profiteers-commercial religionists. God called Micah to speak to the leaders of Jerusalem regarding the abuse of their positions for personal gain, "But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the LORD, and of justice... Read More

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Jul 18

God's Way with the Wayward

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 18 Twice Isaiah warns King Hezekiah of the trouble or distress that will come upon them, should they make an alliance with Egypt to protect themselves from the Assyrians, "Woe to the rebellious children," says the LORD, "who take counsel, but not of Me, and who devise plans, but not of My Spirit, that they may add sin to sin; who walk down to Egypt, and have not asked My advice, to strengthen themselves in... Read More

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Jul 17

Circle the Date

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 17 Things will not always be as they are. Northern Israel has gone into captivity and the situation in Judah looks bleak because it is bleak! Isaiah looks to a promised day in the future when things for Israel will change: The LORD will punish the powers in the heavens above and the kings on the earth below (Is. 24:21) Israel will recognize and trust in God as the LORD (Is. 25:9) Judah will sing a celebration... Read More

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Jul 16

When God Removes His Defensive Shield

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 16 Isaiah 22 records Sennacherib's invasion of Judah; though Jerusalem itself is not taken, the prophet mourns over the destruction of God's people (4). As the inhabitants of the city watch from the rooftops (1), they witness the capture of Judah's rulers along with the people who had fled (3). Isaiah sees the surrounding enemy (7), but attributes their victory to the LORD of Hosts (5). The prophet's terse... Read More

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Jul 15

Hope and Help for the Exploited

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 15 One of the destructive fruits of the Fall is the development of a culture of exploitation. Cain and his descendants, who lived outside of the presence of God, became violent, murdered, and oppressed women through polygamy. Later, when the descendants of Seth intermarried with Cain's descendants, the entire world succumbed to violence and exploitation, except for Noah and his family, who were rescued out of a global... Read More

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Jul 14

Happiness Is Conditional

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 14 That God desires the blessedness or happiness of His people is seen in creation, in His promise to Abraham, and to the nation of Israel: Creation : The garden of Eden advertises God's desire to bless His people, "The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. ... Read More

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Jul 13

The School of Hard Knocks

The One Year Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 13 "I will lift up my eyes to the hills-from whence comes my help? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth" (Ps. 121:1-2). The songs of ascents were probably written during the Return Era. The message of these psalms captures the revived hearts of the exiles as they return from Babylon and rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. Their seventy-year exile has taught them a number of life lessons about... Read More

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Jul 12

Bible Literacy and Spiritual Vitality

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 12 Most children and many adults are afraid of the dark. There exists a greater darkness than the darkness that exists between sunset and sunrise. Life is dark. Only the Bible directs man through that darkness, "Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light to my path" (Ps. 119:105). During the Creation Era man lost his way when he disregarded God's prohibition and sinned against God. Like a high-beam... Read More

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Jul 11

Idols on Earth, God in Heaven

The One Year Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 11 Idols are handmade, while man is God-made. God cannot be seen with the naked eye, though metaphorically He has a mouth that speaks, ears that hear, hands that stretch out, and feet that rest upon the footstool of the earth. He is unbound by time and limitations. Idols, however, are made by human hands. The psalmist describes the idols made by the human hand and worshiped by the human heart, "Their idols... Read More

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Jul 10

Hope For The Hopeless

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 10 "Consider the great love of the Lord," concludes the psalmist's discourse about hope for the hopeless in Psalm 107. He describes four categories of people who benefit from God's love: Wanderers in desert wastelands (107:4-9) People living in the desert wastelands suffer from hunger and despair of life. Their hopeless state changes when they cry out to the LORD: "He delivered them out of... Read More

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Jul 9

The Test of Circumstances

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 9 The psalmist begins Psalm 105 with, "Make known His deeds among the peoples!" Then he introduces Abraham as the one through whom God has chosen to manifest His deeds, "O seed of Abraham His servant, you children of Jacob, His chosen ones!" (105:6). It is to Abraham and his descendants that God makes an oath, "To you I will give the land of Canaan" (105:11). The psalmist proceeds to track... Read More

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Jul 8

A Prayer for the Overwhelmed

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013) - July 8 "This will be written for the generation to come, that a people yet to be created may praise the LORD" (Ps. 102:18). Guilt, anxiety, and grief characterized Israel following their captivity by the Babylonians (This psalm was probably written during the days following that captivity to stoke the faith of those given to despair). Psalm 102 teaches a number of helpful truths that minister to those who are... Read More

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Jul 7

Truth and Righteousness

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 7 Righteousness and justice originate with God. Save for God's interaction with His people Israel, the world could not know righteousness and justice. Without God's revelation of Himself to Israel, selfishness and exploitation abound. Bereft of God's revelation of Himself, all of the world embraces idolatry and implodes. God has chosen Israel, through whom all the nations will see His righteousness and... Read More

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Jul 6

The Pursuit of Happiness

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 6 "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scornful; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he mediates day and night" (Ps. 1:1-2). A passion to know God through meditating on His Word. Happiness. The two go hand in hand. The one who meditates on God through His Word "is like a tree planted by the rivers of... Read More

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Jul 5

The King's King

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 5 Jehoshaphat had allied himself with Israel to help them defeat the Arameans. God rebuked him through a prophet, "Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD?" (2 Chron. 19:2). Jehoshaphat returned to the LORD and appointed the Levites to judge the people throughout the land based on God's law, commands, decrees, and ordinances (2 Chron.19:10). As Jehoshaphat faced the vast opposing army, he... Read More

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Jul 4

Losing Battles and Sustaining Hope

The One Year® Chronological Bible, NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 4 Even King David lost military battles―skirmishes with the enemy. Psalm 44 demonstrates how Israel's godly king sustains hope after military defeat: He reminds himself of God's powerful deliverances in the past, "We have heard . . . our fathers have told us, the deeds You did in their days, in days of old" (44:1). He credits Israel's entry into the land of Canaan to God, "For they did not... Read More

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Jul 3

Wise Motherly Advice

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 3 The book of Proverbs closes with a four-fold motherly admonition to her royal son: Desire - The king's mother warns the king against promiscuity. She declares, "Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings" (31:3). Sexual addictions ruin unrestrained men--men whose lives revolve around their sexual appetite. Drink - Noah had good cause to numb the terrible loss he... Read More

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Jul 2

Honey and Sexual Temptation

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 2 "A satisfied soul loathes the honeycomb, but to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. Like a bird that wanders from its nest is a man who wanders from his place" (Prov. 27:7-8). Earlier in Proverbs, the wisdom writer warns men of adulterous or wanton women. He also implores husbands to turn to their own wives for sexual fulfillment, "Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own... Read More

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Jul 1

When Revival Breaks Out

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), July 1 Hezekiah's decisive and godly leadership draws Judah back from experiencing the covenant cursings to enjoying the outpouring of covenant blessings (Deut. 28). Under Hezekiah's leadership, Judah experiences revival. This revival occurs in Judah when Hezekiah: Recognizes spiritual reality (2 Chron. 29:1-19): Hezekiah connects the dots of his kingdom's oppression under the Assyrians to Judah's... Read More

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Jun 30

Seeing Far, Seeing Near

The One Year Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), June 30 Isaiah pronounces the LORD's judgment on Babylon and Moab for their pride and rebellion. These nations have never belonged to the Lord; have never been followers of the true God; have never had copies of God's Word; have never had true priests from Israel; and (except for the time that they were under David's reign as vassal states) have never known much about the God of Israel. Yet the LORD, Israel's God,... Read More

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Jun 29

The Saddest Song of All

The One Year® Chronological Bible, NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), June 29 Songs communicate values, ideologies, love, humor, grief, and in Isaiah's case, woes--woes regarding Israel. Using the analogy of a vineyard, Isaiah describes the LORD's love for Israel and their response to His love. The LORD has situated His vineyard on a fertile hillside, where He has dug it and cleared it of stones. He has hedged it about and built a watchtower in its midst. He has cut out a winepress in... Read More

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Jun 28

Living With Grief

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), June 28 We only grieve over those whom we have loved and lost. God's grief is born of a holy love for those whom He created in His image. Therefore, their sin grieves Him deeply. God's goodness turns to grief after the first couple sin in the garden of Eden. After covering their nakedness He evicts them from the garden. Ten generations after the Fall, God assesses humanity, "Then the LORD saw that the... Read More

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Jun 27

The Death of a Nation

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), June 27 Hosea prophesies throughout the reigns of Israel's final seven kings. He does not fail his commission; he is faithful to the LORD until the end. Hosea's final prophecy sounds an urgent plea for repentance, "O Israel, return to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity; take words with you, and return to the LORD. Say to him, "Take away all iniquity; receive us graciously,... Read More

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Jun 26

A Heart That Strays

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), June 26 "Like Adam, they have broken covenant--they were unfaithful to me there" (Hosea 6:7, HCSB). The LORD creates the garden of Eden, places man in it, and gives man one prohibition-"Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die" (Gen. 2:16-17). The serpent enters the garden and... Read More

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Jun 25

Scandalous Love

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), June 25 When God desires to demonstrate His love for His people, He gives them a picture of that love through the prophet Hosea, "Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry, for the land has committed great harlotry by departing from the LORD" (Hosea 1:2). Stunned but obedient, Hosea marries Gomer, a woman committed to "running around on him." The early chapters of Hosea chronicle... Read More

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Jun 24

Messianic Promises in Isaiah

The One Year Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), June 24 Isaiah prophesies for approximately 58 years, beginning at the end of King Uzziah's final years and continuing through the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. Only one book of the Bible (Psalms) contains more messianic references than the book of Isaiah, which records more than twenty-one promises or references to Judah's only hope. Questions from today's chronological Bible reading (Isaiah 8:1-11:16):... Read More

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Jun 23

The Legacy of Leaders Who Abandon God

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), June 23 King Jeroboam leaves a legacy of idolatry which all nineteen kings of Israel follow and which destroys them as a nation. King David, however, is the standard-bearer for Judah. Each of Judah's kings is measured by David's God-fearing and God-honoring standard. Ahaz becomes Judah's eleventh king when he is 20 years old and reigns for 16 years in Jerusalem (732-715 BC). Sadly, he does not follow the ways of... Read More

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Jun 22

Spiritual Famine

The One Year Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), June 22 "'Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord GOD, 'That I will send a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD'" (Amos 8:11-12). Imagine living in a land whose leaders (kings and priests) govern without a baseline of right and wrong and whose people love to have it so. No one would feel safe. No one would be safe. This is Northern... Read More

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Jun 21

God, Prophets, and Hard-Hearted People

The One Year® Chronological Bible , NKJV (Tyndale, 2013), June 21 Many people struggle with an erroneous picture of the God of the Old Testament as they consider the judgment stories of the Bible. They fail to consider the stubborn and rebellious heart of man-the hardened condition to which God finally responds in judgment. Throughout Israel's history God responds to the sin of His people by warning them through the voice of His prophets, "Surely the Lord GOD does nothing,... Read More

Posted by Blog Archive at Jun 21