Jul 5, 2022
1KINGS 21-22:
What
a cruel surprise it must have been for Elijah to bring about such
an irrefutable display of God's power before the people, but then
to have to flee for his life because of Queen Jezebel! Note that
God deigned to speak twice to King Ahab. And the reason was: God
wanted it known to Ahab and to us that He is not a territorial God.
God also gave amazing, symbolic revelations of Himself in the story
of His appearing to Elijah at Mount Sinai. Finally, in yesterday’s
reading, Elijah's successor, Elisha, was introduced.
PSALM 122:
Consider how exciting it would have been to
make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. And let’s all keep ‘marching to
Zion’.
JOHN 10a:
This
is a place where our chapter divisions in our Bibles probably do
not serve us well. In the original manuscript by John, there would
not be any separation between what Jesus said to the Pharisees to
answer their question about spiritual blindness, and this chapter.
In fact, in John’s day they didn’t even have spaces between words.
So in all likelihood, there was not even a new line to start this
teaching. So let’s envision Jesus giving this teaching while the
previously blind man and the Pharisees were listening.
NLT Translation note:
Ps.
122:4 All the tribes of Israel—the LORD’s people— make their
pilgrimage here.
They
come to give thanks to [0//the name of] the LORD, as the law
requires of Israel.
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