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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 collecting daily manna), 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. Thursday, May 10, 2018
Today's Passage : Today's Passage:Subjecta:David Becomes King Over All Israel Bible Verse:2 Samuel 5:1-5 (NLT) "All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “We are your own flesh and blood. In the past, while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel on their military campaigns. And the Lord said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel, and you will become their ruler.’” When all the elders of Israel had come to King David at Hebron, the king made a compact with them at Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel. David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years. In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years." Message:
David became king of all Israel almost exactly 1000 years before the birth of Christ, although the date is not known precisely. Until very recently, the book of Samuel was, remarkably, the only record of his extraordinary life, or even his existence. There are no references to him in Egyptian, Syrian or Assyrian documents of the time, and the many archaeological digs in Jerusalem never found so much as a mention of his name.
The great and brilliant agnostic “Bible scholars,” who hold chairs in the world’s great universities, mostly concluded that David did not exist.
Then, in 1993, a team of archaeologists in the northern Galilee unearthed a triangular piece of basalt rock inscribed in Aramaic. It was subsequently identified as part of a victory pillar erected by the king of Syria in the 9th century A.D (and later smashed by an Israelite ruler). Its inscription speaks of Beit David, i.e. the “House” or “Dynasty” of David. It is the first near-contemporaneous reference to David ever found. So, suddenly, there was extrinsic evidence of a king named David, sufficiently important to have founded a line of kings in the appropriate period.
Since then, three or four more bits of archeological evidence have been discovered that indicate agreement with Samuel’s account of King David; and, I would bet, they will continue to turn up. Will liberal university professors ever admit that the Bible was correct all along? Your guess is as good as mine, but they have both personal and professional interests in proving that the Bible is fictional.
Meditation : Prayer : Almighty God, who does freely pardon all who repent and turn to Him, now fulfill in my contrite heart the promise of redeeming grace; forgiving all my sins, and cleansing me from an evil conscience; through the perfect sacrifice of Christ Jesus our Lord. And turn my heart to your will at every moment, I pray.......Amen |
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