Friday
1 Year Bible Plan
(Proverbs 6:20-29, Mark 12:28-44, Leviticus 13)
Proverbs – There’s a lot of talk in the book of Proverbs about obeying the wisdom of you parents, but inherent in this advice is that the parents are giving good advice. This is a heavy burden for parents. Train your kids in a Godly manner and they have the opportunity to become upright adults. If you neglect your duties, there are far reaching consequences. Thankfully, my parents held up their end of the bargain!
Mark – The entire Torah, boiled down to 2 sentences. Sure, there’s 5 books worth of meaning in those 2 sentences, but that’s what this is.
Leviticus – All of this is about an attitude of the heart. Becoming a person who takes the law seriously is only important if you’re doing it for the right reasons. If you’re doing it because, legally, that’s what has to be done, then you’re doing it for the wrong reason. The whole point is to set yourself apart for Yahweh so that you can be holy and be able to enter into His presence. God wants to be with us, but our sin separates us from Him. It’s our job to make ourselves clean in His sight.
Saturday
1 Year Bible Plan
(Psalms 30:8-12, Mark 13:1-31, Leviticus 14)
Psalms – Even at our end, it should be all about praising God. Even our death should be cause to praise Yahweh. If there is anything in our life that we’re doing which isn’t praising Yahweh, we need to reassess what we’re doing and make sure that we do that thing in a way that is a prayer to God. And if it is not a thing that can be turned into praise, we don’t need to be doing it.
Mark – Here we have Yeshua explaining what the end times will look like. He is telling His followers (Christians) that they will see the abomination of desolation, and that they will see the tribulation, and that after that tribulation they will see the sun and moon darkened and they will see the Son of Man arriving in the clouds at the end. How someone can read this and still believe that they will be raptured away before all of these things astounds me. In order to believe that, they would have to explain away the very words of Messiah.
Leviticus – It’s amazing to me just how much blood it took to atone for our sins before the sacrifice of Yeshua. There was so much blood. The New Testament doesn’t really go into what day-to-day life was like in Jerusalem at the time of Jesus. It was written by people who were not only there, but they had an understanding of the Torah and all of the offerings which needed to be done. Without understanding what sacrifices were needed to atone for ones sins we can never understand what Jesus did for us when He died on that cross.
Sunday
1 Year Bible Plan
(Psalms 31:1-8, Mark 13:32-14:16, Leviticus 15-16)
Psalms – All too often I forget to give my praises to God. It’s so inspiring to read of David praising Yahweh in his distress. It’s like I need an alarm every hour to remind me to focus on praising God.
Mark – Imminence is drawn from this passage (and a few others like it). Does this verse override the entire chapter before it where Jesus says you have to get through the tribulation?
Leviticus – The more I read Leviticus, the more I wonder if there was ever anybody who was actually clean.
In chapter 16 will have the instructions for the Day of Atonement. We have the goat for Yahweh and the vote for Azazel. With Azazel being the mention as opposite in this way, what does that say about him? Is he the serpent in the garden? Or, since rabbinic tradition places him as one of the watchers who came down to take human women, and rabbinic tradition is also that the evil of the world is blamed on the sons of God from Gen 6, is this where they get that the evil of the world is a sons-of-God/Nephilim thing? The belief, as I understand it, is that sin entered the world in the garden of eden, but evil entered the world in Genesis 6.
1 Year Bible Plan
(Proverbs 6:20-29, Mark 12:28-44, Leviticus 13)
Proverbs – There’s a lot of talk in the book of Proverbs about obeying the wisdom of you parents, but inherent in this advice is that the parents are giving good advice. This is a heavy burden for parents. Train your kids in a Godly manner and they have the opportunity to become upright adults. If you neglect your duties, there are far reaching consequences. Thankfully, my parents held up their end of the bargain!
Mark – The entire Torah, boiled down to 2 sentences. Sure, there’s 5 books worth of meaning in those 2 sentences, but that’s what this is.
Leviticus – All of this is about an attitude of the heart. Becoming a person who takes the law seriously is only important if you’re doing it for the right reasons. If you’re doing it because, legally, that’s what has to be done, then you’re doing it for the wrong reason. The whole point is to set yourself apart for Yahweh so that you can be holy and be able to enter into His presence. God wants to be with us, but our sin separates us from Him. It’s our job to make ourselves clean in His sight.
Saturday
1 Year Bible Plan
(Psalms 30:8-12, Mark 13:1-31, Leviticus 14)
Psalms – Even at our end, it should be all about praising God. Even our death should be cause to praise Yahweh. If there is anything in our life that we’re doing which isn’t praising Yahweh, we need to reassess what we’re doing and make sure that we do that thing in a way that is a prayer to God. And if it is not a thing that can be turned into praise, we don’t need to be doing it.
Mark – Here we have Yeshua explaining what the end times will look like. He is telling His followers (Christians) that they will see the abomination of desolation, and that they will see the tribulation, and that after that tribulation they will see the sun and moon darkened and they will see the Son of Man arriving in the clouds at the end. How someone can read this and still believe that they will be raptured away before all of these things astounds me. In order to believe that, they would have to explain away the very words of Messiah.
Leviticus – It’s amazing to me just how much blood it took to atone for our sins before the sacrifice of Yeshua. There was so much blood. The New Testament doesn’t really go into what day-to-day life was like in Jerusalem at the time of Jesus. It was written by people who were not only there, but they had an understanding of the Torah and all of the offerings which needed to be done. Without understanding what sacrifices were needed to atone for ones sins we can never understand what Jesus did for us when He died on that cross.
Sunday
1 Year Bible Plan
(Psalms 31:1-8, Mark 13:32-14:16, Leviticus 15-16)
Psalms – All too often I forget to give my praises to God. It’s so inspiring to read of David praising Yahweh in his distress. It’s like I need an alarm every hour to remind me to focus on praising God.
Mark – Imminence is drawn from this passage (and a few others like it). Does this verse override the entire chapter before it where Jesus says you have to get through the tribulation?
Leviticus – The more I read Leviticus, the more I wonder if there was ever anybody who was actually clean.
In chapter 16 will have the instructions for the Day of Atonement. We have the goat for Yahweh and the vote for Azazel. With Azazel being the mention as opposite in this way, what does that say about him? Is he the serpent in the garden? Or, since rabbinic tradition places him as one of the watchers who came down to take human women, and rabbinic tradition is also that the evil of the world is blamed on the sons of God from Gen 6, is this where they get that the evil of the world is a sons-of-God/Nephilim thing? The belief, as I understand it, is that sin entered the world in the garden of eden, but evil entered the world in Genesis 6.
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