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Reading the Bible in a Year-April 28
Yes, I'm still here!!! I'm glad you are too! Thanks to one of our readers who spoke to me and encouraged me to log back on!! I didn't realize how long it had been!
Do you have a month that is hard for you? That is my April. Anniversaries of birth, death, and weddings all pile together for a roller-coaster ride through emotions and activities. Not to mention, the busy-ness at work during this month!!!
And our readings have not been easy narrative, have they? He begat and he begat and he begat........a whole list of people and jobs that covered generations of history! Why? Why is this so important? Why would these scrolls get chosen to be in such an important book not only once, but repetitive times? Didn't we just read these names in previous books?
Well, geneology has become very important to alot of people today, so I guess it was the same then. Not to mention, that many times your job back then was tied into your geneology so you had to prove that you had the right to be there! And many of these names are recorded to lead up to the geneology of Jesus! That's really what it all wraps around quite often. These people were truly the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, of God! And we still are descendants (although some of us have been adopted!) of these people. So I guess it is important to all of us.
Plus, how cool would that be to have your name recorded in an important book like the Bible!! I mean, my name is recorded in a few places that I sometimes pull out to share with people--yours too I bet.....Our family bible has a place to record births and deaths. My yearbook from high school records "the marks I made on history". I remember getting excited the first time the phone book came out with my name (not my parent's). And who hasn't "googled" their own name to see where it has come up in print? But there is even a more important book where your name is recorded once you believe that God is truly your father.....check out Malachi 3:16-18! Yeah--guess God is into scrapbooking!!
Think about that for a while. What pictures and memorabilia would be beside your name in the Book of Remembrance? Would you be proud to see your pages? Would lots of stuff have to be left out?
God.. thanks for loving us enough to want to collect events from our lives and put those things in a book! I can't wait to sit down with you and look through it one day! Help me to give you lots of chances to collect stuff for that book 'cause I want that to be a long visit!!
Do you have a month that is hard for you? That is my April. Anniversaries of birth, death, and weddings all pile together for a roller-coaster ride through emotions and activities. Not to mention, the busy-ness at work during this month!!!
And our readings have not been easy narrative, have they? He begat and he begat and he begat........a whole list of people and jobs that covered generations of history! Why? Why is this so important? Why would these scrolls get chosen to be in such an important book not only once, but repetitive times? Didn't we just read these names in previous books?
Well, geneology has become very important to alot of people today, so I guess it was the same then. Not to mention, that many times your job back then was tied into your geneology so you had to prove that you had the right to be there! And many of these names are recorded to lead up to the geneology of Jesus! That's really what it all wraps around quite often. These people were truly the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, of God! And we still are descendants (although some of us have been adopted!) of these people. So I guess it is important to all of us.
Plus, how cool would that be to have your name recorded in an important book like the Bible!! I mean, my name is recorded in a few places that I sometimes pull out to share with people--yours too I bet.....Our family bible has a place to record births and deaths. My yearbook from high school records "the marks I made on history". I remember getting excited the first time the phone book came out with my name (not my parent's). And who hasn't "googled" their own name to see where it has come up in print? But there is even a more important book where your name is recorded once you believe that God is truly your father.....check out Malachi 3:16-18! Yeah--guess God is into scrapbooking!!
Think about that for a while. What pictures and memorabilia would be beside your name in the Book of Remembrance? Would you be proud to see your pages? Would lots of stuff have to be left out?
God.. thanks for loving us enough to want to collect events from our lives and put those things in a book! I can't wait to sit down with you and look through it one day! Help me to give you lots of chances to collect stuff for that book 'cause I want that to be a long visit!!
Reading the Bible in One Year-April 9
Click here for a timeline to use as you read through 1Kings and 2Kings. It helps keep the kings and prophets straight!
 | To view a video of the temple click here. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Click the picture to connect to the original website describing Solomon's Temple. |
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| Click the picture to learn more about Baal, one of the gods that got so many kings in trouble! |
| Click here to learn more about the Annals of the Kings mentioned often in the books of 1Kings and 2Kings |
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