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For I know the plans I have for you,declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jer 29:11 |
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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Sunday, February 20, 2022
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :The Destruction of Sin Bible Verse:Micah 1:1-7 (The Message) "God’s Message as it came to Micah of Moresheth. It came during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. It had to do with what was going on in Samaria and Jerusalem. God Takes the Witness Stand. Listen, people — all of you. Listen, earth, and everyone in it: The Master, God, takes the witness stand against you, the Master from his Holy Temple. Look, here he comes! God, from his place! He comes down and strides across mountains and hills. Mountains sink under his feet, valleys split apart; The rock mountains crumble into gravel, the river valleys leak like sieves. All this because of Jacob’s sin, because Israel’s family did wrong. You ask, “So what is Jacob’s sin?” Just look at Samaria — isn’t it obvious? And all the sex and religion shrines in Judah — isn’t Jerusalem responsible? “I’m turning Samaria into a heap of rubble, a vacant lot littered with garbage. I’ll dump the stones from her buildings in the valley and leave her abandoned foundations exposed. All her carved and cast gods and goddesses will be sold for stove wood and scrap metal, All her sacred fertility groves burned to the ground, All the sticks and stones she worshiped as gods, destroyed. These were her earnings from her life as a whore. This is what happens to the fees of a whore.”" Message:
The Message is a translation by Eugene Peterson, published in 2002, in a “contemporary idiom that keeps the language of the Message (Bible) current and fresh and understandable.” It is not intended as a primary Bible. Peterson himself, in the Introduction, warns that it is not a “study Bible.”
Rather, it is intended as an aid to help two very different groups of people: Those who have spent their lives studying the Bible and are getting a bit stale, who benefit from reading it in a new light; and those who have never been exposed to it and are alienated by the archaic and difficult language of more literal translations. So take it for what it is worth. Try to enjoy it (as I do), rather than being critical.
gold Baal from Canaan
Canaanite Baal
The verses presented today predict the destruction of the northern half of the Hebrew kingdom. After Solomon’s death, Israel was divided into two kingdoms. Israel (Samaria) in the north was ruled by usurpers, starting with Jeroboam, wicked men who promoted idolatry. Judah (Jerusalem) in the south struggled to keep the Old Covenant under the old line of kings. The baleful Old Testament prophets, such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Micah, came from this period, warning of the destruction that would follow the diminishing righteousness of the Hebrew nations.
Soon after Micah’s prophesy, the northern kingdom — whose capital was Samaria — was conquered and devastated by the Assyrians. The people were largely sold into slavery.
One thing this translation accomplishes is to make us wonder what will happen to the United States and Europe, as the population moves away from a general acceptance of Christianity and Christian morality, into an ethos entirely determined by worship of self, fame and money. If you replace “Samaria” with “Los Angeles”, the idea that it might be turned into “a heap of rubble, a vacant lot littered with garbage” sounds very disturbing and entirely plausible.
Oddly, Christians themselves are less affected than the general population, for we are more concerned with our own conduct and the salvation of others’ souls than with political and economic power. But one has to wonder whether the general decline in moral standards in the West is connected to their ongoing decline as the world’s leaders. Or, perhaps more in line with Scripture, whether we are seeing an inevitable decline in both morals and prosperity, as the world declines towards its ultimate destruction.
Meditation : Prayer : Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever.......Amen |
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