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November 8, 2020

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Sunday November 8, 2020 (NIV)

Ezekiel 18-19

Everyone Will Suffer for His Own Sins

18 The Lord spoke his word to me. He said, ²“What do you mean when you use this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘Fathers have eaten sour grapes, and their children’s teeth are set on edge’? ³As I live, declares the Almighty Lord, you will no longer use this proverb in Israel. ⁴The life of every person belongs to me. Fathers and their children belong to me. The person who sins will die.

⁵“Suppose a righteous person does what is fair and right. ⁶He doesn’t eat at the illegal mountain worship sites or look for help from the idols of the nation of Israel. He doesn’t dishonor his neighbor’s wife or have sexual intercourse with a woman while she is having her period. ⁷He doesn’t oppress anyone. He returns what a borrower gives him as security for a loan. He doesn’t rob anyone. He gives food to people who are hungry, and he gives clothes to those who are naked. ⁸He doesn’t lend money for interest or make an excessive profit. He refuses to do evil things, and he judges everyone fairly. ⁹He lives by my rules and obeys my laws faithfully. This person is righteous. He will certainly live,” declares the Almighty Lord.

¹⁰“But suppose this person has a son who robs and murders. The son does all the things ¹¹that his father never did. He eats at the illegal mountain worship sites. He dishonors his neighbor’s wife. ¹²He oppresses the poor and needy. He robs. He doesn’t return the security for a loan. He looks to idols for help. He does disgusting things. ¹³He lends money for interest and makes excessive profits. Will this person live? He will not live. He has done all these disgusting things. So he must die, and he will be responsible for his own death.

¹⁴“But suppose this person has a son. The son sees all the sins that his father does. He is afraid, so he doesn’t do such things. ^[a] ¹⁵He doesn’t eat at the illegal mountain worship sites or look for help from the idols of the nation of Israel. He doesn’t dishonor his neighbor’s wife. ¹⁶He doesn’t oppress anyone. He doesn’t keep the security for a loan. He doesn’t rob anyone. He gives food to people who are hungry, and he gives clothes to those who are naked. ¹⁷He refuses to hurt the poor. He doesn’t charge interest or make excessive profits. He obeys my rules and lives by my laws. He won’t die for his father’s sins. He will certainly live. ¹⁸But his father has oppressed others, robbed his relative, and done what is wrong among his people. So the father will die because of his sin.

¹⁹“But you ask, ‘Why isn’t the son punished for his father’s sin?’ It is because the son has done what is fair and right. He obeyed my rules and followed them. He will certainly live. ²⁰The person who sins will die. A son will not be punished for his father’s sins, and a father will not be punished for his son’s sins. The righteousness of the righteous person will be his own, and the wickedness of the wicked person will be his own.

²¹“But suppose a wicked person turns away from all the sins that he has done. He obeys all my laws and does what is fair and right. He will certainly live. He will not die. ²²All the rebellious things that he did will not be remembered. He will live because of the right things that he did. ²³I don’t want wicked people to die.” declares the Almighty Lord. “I want them to turn from their evil ways and live.

²⁴“But suppose a righteous person turns away from doing right and he does evil things. He does all the disgusting things that the wicked person did. Will he live? All the right things that he has done will not be remembered because of his unfaithfulness and because of his sin. He will die because of them.

²⁵“But you say, ‘The Lord’s way is unfair.’ Listen, nation of Israel, isn’t my way fair? Isn’t it your ways that are unfair? ²⁶When a righteous person turns away from doing right and does evil things, he will die. He will die because of the evil things he has done. ²⁷When a wicked person turns away from the wicked things that he has done and does what is fair and right, he will live. ²⁸He realized what he was doing and turned away from all the rebellious things that he had done. He will certainly live. He will not die.

²⁹“But the nation of Israel says, ‘The Lord’s way is unfair.’ Isn’t my way fair, nation of Israel? Isn’t it your ways that are unfair?

³⁰“That is why I will judge each of you by what you have done, people of Israel,” declares the Almighty Lord. “Change the way you think and act. Turn away from all the rebellious things that you have done so that you will not fall into sin. ³¹Stop all the rebellious things that you are doing. Get yourselves new hearts and new spirits. Why do you want to die, nation of Israel? ³²I don’t want anyone to die,” declares the Almighty Lord. “Change the way you think and act!”

Funeral Songs for Israel’s Princes

Sing a funeral song for the princes of Israel. ²Say:

Your mother was like a lioness.
She lay down among the lions.
She fed many cubs.
³One of the cubs she raised became a young lion.
He learned to tear apart the animals he hunted.
He ate people.
⁴The nations heard about him,
caught him in their pit,
and brought him with hooks to Egypt.
⁵The lioness waited until she saw that there was no more hope.
Then she took another one of her cubs
and raised him into a young lion.

⁶He became a young lion, and he prowled among the lions.
He learned to tear apart the animals he hunted.
He ate people.
⁷He destroyed fortresses
and turned cities into wastelands.
The land and everyone living in it
were terrified by the sound of his roar.
⁸The nations from every region came together against him.
They spread their net over him
and caught him in their pit.
⁹With hooks they put him in a cage
and brought him to the king of Babylon.
They put him in prison
so that his roar wouldn’t be heard anymore
on the mountains of Israel.

¹⁰Your mother was like a grapevine
that was planted near water.
It had a lot of fruit and many branches
because there was plenty of water.
¹¹Its branches were strong.
They were used to make scepters for kings.
It grew to be tall with many branches around it,
and everyone saw it because of its many branches.
¹²But in anger it was uprooted and thrown to the ground.
The east wind dried up its fruit.
Its strong branches broke off.
They withered and were burned.
¹³Now it is planted in the desert,
in a dry and waterless land.
¹⁴Fire has spread from the vine’s main branch.
Fire has destroyed its fruit.
It no longer has any strong branches
that could be used as a king’s scepter.

This is a funeral song. It is to be used as a funeral song.

Footnotes:

Ezekiel 18:15 Many Hebrew manuscripts, Greek, Latin; other Hebrew manuscripts “Although he sees them, he doesn’t do such things.”

GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

Hebrews 9:1-10

Christ Offered a Superior Sacrifice

9 The first promise had rules for the priests’ service. It also had a holy place on earth. ²A tent was set up. The first part of this tent was called the holy place. The lamp stand, the table, and the bread of the presence were in this part of the tent. ³Behind the second curtain was the part of the tent called the most holy place. ⁴It contained the gold incense burner and the ark of the Lord’s promise. The ark was completely covered with gold. In the ark were the gold jar filled with manna, Aaron’s staff that had blossomed, and the tablets on which the promise^[a] was written. ⁵Above the ark were the angels^[b] of glory with their wings overshadowing the throne of mercy. (Discussing these things in detail isn’t possible now.)

⁶That is how these two parts of the tent were set up. The priests always went into the first part of the tent to perform their duties. ⁷But only the chief priest went into the second part of the tent. Once a year he entered and brought blood that he offered for himself and for the things that the people did wrong unintentionally. ⁸The Holy Spirit used this to show that the way into the most holy place was not open while the tent was still in use.

⁹The first part of the tent is an example for the present time. The gifts and sacrifices that were brought there could not give the worshiper a clear conscience. ¹⁰These gifts and sacrifices were meant to be food, drink, and items used in various purification ceremonies. These ceremonies were required for the body until God would establish a new way of doing things.

Footnotes:

Hebrews 9:4 Or “covenant.”
Hebrews 9:5 Or “cherubim.”

GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

Psalm 106:32-48

³²They made God angry by the water at Meribah.
Things turned out badly for Moses because of what they did,
³³since they made him bitter so that he spoke recklessly.

³⁴They did not destroy the people as the Lord had told them.
³⁵Instead, they intermarried with other nations.
They learned to do what other nations did,
³⁶and they worshiped their idols,
which became a trap for them.
³⁷They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.
³⁸They shed innocent blood,
the blood of their own sons and daughters
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan.
The land became polluted with blood.
³⁹They became filthy because of what they did.
They behaved like prostitutes.
⁴⁰The Lord burned with anger against his own people.
He was disgusted with those who belonged to him.
⁴¹He handed them over to other nations,
and those who hated them ruled them.
⁴²Their enemies oppressed them
and made them subject to their power.
⁴³He rescued them many times,
but they continued to plot rebellion against him
and to sink deeper because of their sin.
⁴⁴He saw that they were suffering
when he heard their cry for help.
⁴⁵He remembered his promise^[a] to them.
In keeping with his rich mercy, he changed his plans.
⁴⁶He let them find compassion
from all those who held them captive.

⁴⁷Rescue us, O Lord our God, and gather us from the nations
so that we may give thanks to your holy name
and make your praise our glory.

⁴⁸Thanks be to the Lord God of Israel
from everlasting to everlasting.
Let all the people say amen.

Hallelujah!

Footnotes:

Psalm 106:45 Or “covenant.”

GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

Proverbs 27:10

¹⁰Do not abandon your friend or your father’s friend.
Do not go to a relative’s home when you are in trouble.
A neighbor living nearby is better than a relative far away.

GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

November 7, 2020

11/07/2020 DAB Transcript

Ezekiel 16:42-17:24, Hebrew 8:1-13, Psalms 106:13-31, Proverbs 27:7-9

Today is the 7^th day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian and I guess this…well…it’s the 7^th day of November, so I guess it’s our first full week that we’re about to complete in this 11^th month of the year. So, let’s dive in. We’re reading from the Evangelical Heritage Version this week, which is today. Ezekiel chapter 16 verse 42 through 17 verse 24.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word, we thank You for this first week of this new month that we’re in as we continue our journey with You. And what a journey it has been. We began a journey thinking that we were going to go through the Bible and then we found each other, and we were going to the Bible in community. And then we…we learned things that You were speaking to us as a community and as individuals, only to find out You have been with us the whole time. You have been guiding and directing and protecting us the whole time. Even when we were Your enemies You still loved us. And, so, it’s been a year of discovery and this year, this disruptive year has forced to us to reconsider the old ways, and to reconsider where we’re going. And we can consider all we want but what we deeply want to consider is where You’re going because that’s where we want to go. That’s where we want to be. We want to be a part of what You are doing. And we thank You for Your word because it leads us on that path, it teaches us, it makes us aware of Your presence in our lives. And, so, we continue to be aware. Come Holy Spirit, well up from within as we become aware that You are within us, leading and directing and guiding us. May we see it clearly. We ask this in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen.

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Hey DAB it’s __ J calling from Cleveland Ohio just saying hello to everybody wishing everybody well today. I know it’s been so many things going on. __ I’m praying for you all. It’s been a minute since I’ve called in. Been a heavy, heavy year. I shared with you guys some time ago that I had lost my mom __earlier this year in April. So, it’s been a tough, tough year but at the same time it’s been a wonderful year filled with joy. So, I’m reaching out to just pray for everybody today. A lot of polarization going on across our country our faith is polarized our passions are polarized the politics are polarizing the pandemic is polarizing but I…I…I chose today to turn that polarization into praise. Praise God for life for health for strength that Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins. Thank God we don’t have to die on the cross when we have a cross to bear. God bless you all and stay safe and keep Jesus lifted up for He said he would draw all men unto him. Bye.

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Hi, this message is for Danny from Southern Oregon. It is November 3^rd and I just heard your call about your grandson playing hooky from school with his friends and his best friend killed the boy. Oh…it just really broke me down and I was just so compelled call in. I wanted to let you know that I’m gonna be praying for you. Danny I’m praying for your grandson Christopher. I’m praying for the young man who was murdered and his family. I’m praying for Tony who was next to the young man who got shot. I’m praying for Dustin who’s also the accused murderer. Oh my, Danny…I’m…I’m thankful that you’re a woman of God and I know that your prayers have helped to keep your grandson covered. I’m praying for all the family members and all the friends. I couldn’t imagine being a parent to any of the kids involved. It’s so heavy and I’m just praying that our Lord Jesus Christ bless these kids and bless the families. In Jesus name. If you all pray with me. So, Danny I wish you the best in your family. Keep your son…keep your grandson Christopher…keep him in prayer, keep him covered. And again, I’m just praying for all the kids involved. DAB family thank you so much for praying for everybody. I don’t call in. I’ve been a listener for year but this call…just hearing this call today just really got to me and I was just compelled to call him. So, I wanted to let you know Danny that I’ll be praying for you and everyone involved. Take care and God bless.

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Good morning Daily Audio Bible this is Denise. I’m calling for my friend Amy. I heard you on November 4^th about your heartbreak and your pain that you’re having in your marriage. I called a few weeks ago about the loneliness that I was experiencing in mine and I know the heartbreak and the pain and the suffering of being in a relationship that’s just not seemed to be panning out and the loneliness that you feel. And again, Covid doesn’t help at all now that it’s the holidays. So, Amy I’m letting you know that I know how you feel, and I relate to you and just as I called in and asked for prayer many people at Daily Audio Bible prayed for me. I want to do the same for you. So, God is greater than this situation and He’s gonna renew, restore and even multiply the blessings. Dear heavenly Father I pray for my sister Amy Lord where she is right now. Comfort her heart like you comfort mine. Give her peace like you gave mine. Wrap your arms around her like you wrap your arms around me and let us both know that we were not alone. Lord I pray for her marriage and I pray for restoration. I pray for complete and total peace in that relationship God. I rebuke turmoil and I rebuke loneliness and heartache and I speak life on that relationship. I speak life at Amy. Lord let her fall totally and completely in love you with You as I’m trying to do God and watch over us both as we go forward in Your name. Amen. You’re gonna be all right sister. And I’m gonna be alright too. God bless.

November 7, 2020

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Saturday November 7, 2020 (NIV)

Ezekiel 16:42-17:24

⁴²Then I will lay to rest my wrath against you, and my jealousy will turn away from you. I will be calm and no longer be angry.

⁴³Because you^[a] did not remember the days of your youth, and you made me angry during all these actions, I myself will certainly bring your conduct down upon your head. That is the declaration of the Lord God! Haven’t you added lewdness to all your abominations? ⁴⁴Hear this! Everyone will speak this proverb about you: “Like mother, like daughter.” ⁴⁵You are a true daughter of your mother, who despises her husband and her children, and you are a true sister of your sisters, who despise their husbands and their children. The mother of all of you was a Hittite and your father was an Amorite. ⁴⁶Your older sister is Samaria, who along with her daughters^[b] lives north of you, and your younger sister, who lives south of you along with her daughters, is Sodom. ⁴⁷You did not merely walk in their ways or act according to their abominations, since in a very short time you became more depraved in all your ways than they were. ⁴⁸As I live, says the Lord God, your sister Sodom along with her daughters has not done what you have done along with your daughters. ⁴⁹Look, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: Pride, overindulgence in food, and complacent ease were the way for her and her daughters, and she failed to strengthen the hands^[c] of the poor and needy. ⁵⁰They were haughty, and they committed abominations in my presence, and so I removed them when I saw it. ⁵¹Samaria did not sin half as much as you did. You multiplied your abominations more than they did. You made your sisters appear righteous by all your abominations which you committed. ⁵²So you must bear your disgrace, because by your sins you appeared to plead your sisters’ case for them. Because of your sins—you acted more repulsively than they did—they appear more righteous than you. So you must be ashamed and bear your disgrace, because you made your sisters appear righteous. ⁵³I will bring about their restoration—the restoration of Sodom and her daughters, and the restoration of Samaria and her daughters, as well as your complete restoration in their midst, ⁵⁴so that you will bear your disgrace, and you will be ashamed of everything you did when you appeared to give them comfort. ⁵⁵Your sister Sodom and her daughters will return to their former state, and your sister Samaria and her daughters will return to their former state, and you and your daughters will return to your former state. ⁵⁶Wasn’t your sister Sodom a subject for gossip in your mouth during the days when you were so proud, ⁵⁷in the days before your own wickedness was exposed? So now in the same way you are subjected to scorn by the daughters of Edom^[d] and by all those around her and by the daughters of the Philistines, who scorn you from all sides. ⁵⁸Your lewdness and your abominations, you must now bear, declares the Lord.

⁵⁹So this is what the Lord God says. Shall I do with you just as you have done, you who despised your oath, thereby breaking the covenant? ⁶⁰No, just the opposite, I myself will remember my covenant I made with you during the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant for you. ⁶¹Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters who are older than you, in addition to those who are younger than you, and I will give them to you as daughters, and not outside your covenant.^[e] ⁶²I myself will establish my covenant with you. Then you will know that I am the Lord, ⁶³so that you may remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your disgrace, when I make atonement for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord God.

The Parable About the Cedar Sprig

17 The word of the Lord came to me. ²Son of man, present a challenging parable to the house of Israel. ³Tell the Israelites that this is what the Lord God says.

A great eagle with powerful wings, with long feathers, and covered with multicolored plumes, came to Lebanon. He took the tip of a cedar. ⁴He plucked off the newest shoot at the very top of the tree, and he carried it to a land of merchants. In a city of traders he planted it.

⁵Then he took seed from the land and planted it in a fertile field, like a new plant beside plentiful water. He set it out like a willow twig, ⁶so that it would sprout and become a spreading vine, low to the ground, so that its branches would turn toward the one who planted it^[f] and its roots would remain under him. So it became a vine and produced shoots and leaves and branches.

⁷But there was another great eagle with powerful wings and many plumes. Look at how this vine bent its roots toward him! From the bed where it had been planted, it stretched out its branches toward him, so that he could water it. ⁸It had been planted in good soil beside plentiful water to grow branches, to bear fruit, and to become a magnificent vine.

⁹Tell them this is what the Lord God says. Will it thrive? Won’t he pull up its roots and strip off its fruit so that it dries up? Won’t all its new growth dry up? No strong arm or mighty army will be needed to pluck it by its roots. ¹⁰Although it has been planted, will it thrive? When the east wind touches it, won’t it shrivel up completely? On the very bed where it had sprouted, it will wither away.

¹¹The word of the Lord came to me. ¹²Tell this to the rebellious house.

Don’t you know what these things mean? Tell them this. You saw how the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem. He took its king and its officials and brought them back to Babylon with him.

¹³Then he took a member from the seed of the royal family, made a covenant^[g] with him, and put him under an oath. He took away the leading men of the land ¹⁴so that it would be a lowly kingdom, so that it would not rebel but would keep the covenant with him, so that it could survive. ¹⁵But the prince^[h] rebelled against that king by sending his envoys to Egypt to obtain horses and a large army. Will he thrive? Can someone who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and still escape? ¹⁶As I live, says the Lord God, in the land of the king who made him king,^[i] whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, in his presence in Babylon, he shall die. ¹⁷He will not be joined by a mighty army or a great force during the war, because Pharaoh will not come when the enemy heaps up ramps and builds siege walls in order to cut off many lives. ¹⁸The king despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Even though he had given his hand to seal the covenant, he did all these things. He shall not escape!

¹⁹Therefore, this is what the Lord God says. As I live, because it was an oath taken in my name that the prince despised, I will bring down on his own head my covenant which he broke. ²⁰I will spread my net for him, and he will be caught in my trap. I will bring him to Babylon, and I will enter into judgment with him there for the treachery he has committed against me. ²¹All his fugitives together with all his troops will fall by the sword, and the rest will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken.

²²This is what the Lord God says. I myself will take part of the tip of the cedar and plant it. From the topmost of its shoots I will pluck off a tender sprig, and I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain. ²³On the high mountain of Israel I will plant it. It will produce branches, bear fruit, and become a magnificent cedar. Flying birds of every kind will live under it. In the shelter of its branches they will nest. ²⁴Then all the trees in the countryside will know that I, the Lord, bring down the high tree and raise up the low tree, that I make the green tree dry up, and I make the dried-up tree blossom. I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will carry it out.

Footnotes:

Ezekiel 16:43 You follows a reading in the margin of the Hebrew text. The reading in the main text is I.
Ezekiel 16:46 A city’s daughters are its suburbs and surrounding villages with their citizens.
Ezekiel 16:49 Or come to the aid
Ezekiel 16:57 A variant reading which occurs in Hebrew and in other versions is Aram.
Ezekiel 16:61 Or not on account of your covenant
Ezekiel 17:6 Hebrew toward him. An antecedent is supplied for clarity, as also is done in some following verses.
Ezekiel 17:13 Or treaty
Ezekiel 17:15 The prince is Zedekiah, the last king of Judah. By calling Zedekiah a prince, Ezekiel seems to be suggesting that the exiled king Jehoiachin, through whom the Messianic line would be traced, was still the real king.
Ezekiel 17:16 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whose treaty Zedekiah violated by allying with Egypt

Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV)

Hebrews 8

A Better Promise

8 The main point of what we are saying is this: We have the kind of high priest who has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven. ²He is the minister in the Holy Place, which is the true sanctuary, which the Lord set up, not man. ³For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices, and for that reason this priest also needed to have something that he offered.

⁴If this priest were on earth, he would not even be a priest, because there are priests^[a] who are designated by the law to offer gifts. ⁵They serve at a place that is a copy and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, a place exactly like that about which Moses was told when he was about to complete the tent.^[b] For God said, “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain.”^[c]

⁶But now, Jesus has obtained a ministry that is as much superior as the covenant that he mediates is better, because it has been established on the basis of better promises. ⁷Indeed, if that first covenant were without fault, there would have been no reason to look for a second. ⁸But because God found fault with the people, he said:^[d]

Look, the days are coming, says the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
⁹It will not be like the covenant
that I made with their forefathers
at the time when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt.
Because they did not remember my covenant,
I ignored them, says the Lord.
¹⁰This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord.

I will put my laws into their mind,
and I will write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
¹¹Never again will a man teach his fellow citizen^[e]
or his brother, saying, “Know the Lord,”
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest.
¹²For I will be merciful in regard to their unrighteousness,
and I will not remember their sins any longer.^[f]

¹³When God said “new,” he made the first covenant obsolete, and something that is obsolete and growing old is going to disappear.

Footnotes:

Hebrews 8:4 Some witnesses to the text read those.
Hebrews 8:5 Traditionally tabernacle
Hebrews 8:5 Exodus 25:40
Hebrews 8:8 Some witnesses to the text read Since he found fault, he said to them.
Hebrews 8:11 Some witnesses to the text read neighbor.
Hebrews 8:12 Jeremiah 31:31-34

Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV)

Psalm 106:13-31

Rebellions in the Wilderness

¹³They quickly forgot his deeds.
They did not wait for his plan.
¹⁴Because they were filled with craving in the wilderness,
they challenged God in the wasteland.
¹⁵So he gave them what they asked for,
but he made them sick so they wasted away.

¹⁶Then they grew jealous of Moses in the camp
and of Aaron, who was holy to the Lord.
¹⁷The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan,
and it closed over the followers of Abiram.
¹⁸Then fire burned up their followers.
Flames consumed the wicked.

¹⁹They made a calf at Horeb,
and they bowed down to a thing cast from metal.
²⁰So they exchanged their Glory for a model of an ox that eats grass.
²¹They forgot the God who saved them
by doing great things in Egypt,
²²wonders in the land of Ham,
awesome deeds beside the Red Sea.

God’s Grace

²³So he said he would destroy them.
But Moses, his chosen one, stood between God and the people
to turn aside his wrath, so it did not destroy them.

More Rebellions in the Wilderness

²⁴Then they refused the pleasant land.
They did not believe his word.
²⁵They grumbled in their tents.
They did not listen to the voice of the Lord.
²⁶So he lifted up his hand and swore to them
that he would make them fall in the wilderness,
²⁷and make their descendants fall among the nations,
and he would scatter them throughout the lands.
²⁸Then they yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor,
and they ate sacrifices offered to dead gods.
²⁹They provoked the Lord by their actions,
and a plague broke out among them.
³⁰But Phinehas stood up and interceded for them,
and the plague was restrained.
³¹So this was credited to him as righteousness
for generation after generation, to eternity.

Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV)

Proverbs 27:7-9

⁷A satisfied appetite refuses honey,
but to a hungry appetite, everything bitter tastes sweet.
⁸A person who wanders from his place
is like a bird that wanders from its nest.
⁹Olive oil and incense bring joy to a heart,
and the sweetness of a friend comes from his sincere advice.^[a]

Footnotes:

Proverbs 27:9 Or is better than your own advice

Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV)

November 6, 2020

11/05/2020 DAB Transcript

Ezekiel 14:12-16:41, Hebrews 7:18-28, Psalms 106:1-12, Proverbs 27:4-6

Today is the 6^th day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is a joy and a privilege and an honor and…and anything else that I can think of that I would be like that…all those things to be here with you today. All of these steps that we’ve taken, all of these days together, one by one step-by-step, they’ve brought us here. And sometimes you just realize, “man, I’ve taken the steps. I’ve made it here.” It’s remarkable. It’s remarkable we’ve been able to do this together in community. And, so, what a joy. And we’ve come here to do what we do every day, to dive in to the Scriptures, to come in out of the cold or whatever’s going on, the chaos of life and the world and all of our uncertainties and all of our speculations and just leave em’ at the door. They can stay there. We can pick em’ back up. We can carry em’ around. But when walk in here around the Global Campfire, those things, there’s just no place, there’s just no room for all of that this is where we come to the exhale, to breathe, to catch our breath, to find some peace and serenity and some truth and some focus as the word of God washes over us. So, let’s just leave everything behind and center ourselves as the Scriptures come for today. We’re reading the…from the Evangelical Heritage Version this week. Back into the book of Ezekiel. Today chapter 14 verse 12 through 16 verse 41.

Commentary:

Okay. So, as we’re working through the books of prophecy, we can see that they, you know, they seem somewhat disjointed because they’re not narrative in form, at least not fully narrative in form. So, there the utterances of God through a profit, And, so, we can jump from one prophecy to the next prophecy to the next prophecy with kind of no context in between them. These are the utterances of God about certain things, His declarations. So, we can find them often when they’re back to back to back to be the issuance of some sort of judgment. And…and the details of what that judgment might look like or could look like, typically we hear the judgment that is that is coming and then we find that there’s an alternative - you don’t have to go that way - which is the sort of like the backdrop for life. We can head in a certain direction that leads to destruction, and then when it destroys us, we can’t be mad…it’s where we took ourselves. There was an alternative. We could’ve gone in another way. But we hear back to back to back all these words of woe and doom and destruction and just pain and suffering and sadness. And you…you start thinking God’s really an angry being very put out, very fed up. And, so, you get this kind of angry God, idea. And then…and listen…my hand is raised…like I’m waiving…literally…you can’t see me right now but I’m waving my hand. I grew…I mean I…I grew up thinking these kinds of things, that Jesus loved me, but His dad is just so thoroughly put out with me. Just…to go to the Father is like to go to a being with their arms folded, shaking their head in disappointment. And, you know, I know I’m not the only one. I know that. And, so…and a lot of things go into that. A lot of things play into that. But one of the things that plays into that is really some of…some of these words of judgment in the prophets. So, how does God feel? Like does He even feel? Apparently, He feels because we’re just talking about how we think He feels disappointed. But then we go into grace and we’re like, “he doesn’t really care about our sins. He’ll forgive our sins. He’s faithful and just to forgive our sins. So, He doesn’t really feel anything about those sins. So, you have this juxtaposition of His judgments in the prophecies and His faithfulness to grace and mercy. And then you’re like, “how does He actually really feel then? Like what's…or does He even feel? He’s God. Like does he feel in a way that a human being could understand? What’s going on here?” We find a piece of Scripture today in the book of Ezekiel that really does flesh this out in a way…like in His grace speaking through the prophet Ezekiel He gives us a picture that we can understand. And ironically, although this is thousands of years old, we still can understand very clearly the poignancy of what’s being said. And, so, in the 16^th chapter of Ezekiel God essentially says, look, this is your story. This is what happened. This is how you got here, and then He tells a story about a little baby girl that was born, an infant, a new born baby girl that didn’t even have her umbilical cord cut and nothing was done to care for her after her birth. And this kind of harkens back to ancient times, but not so ancient as you might think where the value of a male child is more than the value of a female child because of the work that a male child can produce as they age and grow, what their value and output is going to be. And then we even enter into a highly patriarchal worldview that has been part of world history, not just like religious history, world history for…for millennia. So, there were times then if a baby girl was born, she would be left to die. Just left. Not cared for, not loved, not attached, nothing. Just left in a field to die. Through the prophet Ezekiel God is saying to His people, “that was you”, which is striking imagery if we want to think of God as a fully patriarchal being. He’s going to the unloved, tossed out infant baby girl who wasn’t cared for at all, who had been left to die. And He came to this baby girl and said, “live! Live!, Live!” And she lived. And He cared for her and He nurtured her, and she grew up and He fell in love with her and she became His…His wife. Like, this is the imagery God is choosing to use to explain Himself to His people and why He feels the way that He does. He nurtured this relationship. He loved her. He lavished all the good things upon her. She became beautiful. She became a queen. They were in love. They were in a covenant together. And then she realized that other people were noticing her, that she was beautiful, that she was desirable. And, so, as the story goes, she prostituted herself. So, she broke the covenant and committed adultery, not once, not twice but repeatedly, over and over and over and over again. If we just cause there because we can understand what we’re talking about here, we can understand why that would bring about unbelievable upheaval in the heart of the person who’s being cheated on. But then it goes beyond that. It’s like she stepped out so bad to the point that she’ll commit adultery, that she’ll sleep with just about anybody, that she’ll show anybody anything, that she’s is open to any kind of liaison so much that it comes to the point that she’s acting like a prostitute but instead of actually just saying this is my vocation, “I’m a prostitute” she’s the one doing the paying and she’s paying with the goods and gifts that had been bestowed upon her by the one who really loved her. Okay, that takes things up a notch. If we put ourselves in that position, we’re like this is a no go. I would be so upset, right? Like I’d be so angry about this. I would be so hurt. My feelings would be frayed. This is what God is…this is the imagery God is using to describe Himself through the prophet toward His people. But wait, there’s more. Not only all of that but God and His beloved, the little baby girl who was left to die, that he nurtured back to life and health then married her and she became a queen and prostituted herself. They had had children and the children were sacrificed to other gods. And, so, through the prophet God’s like, “wasn’t it enough for you to just do what you did with all of your lovers? Did you have to burn my children, our children in the fire to a false god?” Okay. So, if we think it through from that perspective, we could understand why we would look at the situation and say, “judgment is gonna come on that situation eventually. That is wrong, very wrong. That will lead to destruction.” And, so, for God to come through a prophet and say, “that will lead to destruction.” That shouldn’t be a surprise. It doesn’t make God an angry God who got up on the wrong side of the bad and decided to smite, to just smite the first thing that He saw. The imagery that God is using, the way that it’s supposed to hit us is that we would open our eyes and understand God’s not an angry, spiteful being who gets up on the wrong side of the bed with lightning bolts in His right and left hands. He’s a brokenhearted lover. He’s a jealous God and He uses this imagery to show that He’s jealous for His people. This little girl represents His people it represented the Hebrew people thousands of years ago. We are His people. The little girl in this story is us. And, so, the mirror comes up when we start to think about that God could feel this way. And have we been the adulterer? Like have we…have we be added to that or have we been faithful as He has been faithful. Have we chased after other lovers? Have we just continued to buy toys? Have we been the one paying? Like, I…I realize that the analogy that’s been using Ezekiel is a very, very personal marital and sexual in nature and in this example, she’s the one doing the paying for the favors but do we just run from toy to toy to toy to toy to from distraction to distraction to distraction ignoring what we’re paying for and using the gifts that God has given us to do it. Ahh…that bring things a little more close and it leaves us in a position like the Bible often does where we need to allow this to settle into the soil, that we need the Holy Spirit to hover over that soil as this is sinking in, as we begin to see ourselves in the story and the role of God as the one who loved us when we were unloved, the one who wants nothing more than we would return to Him, that we would come back. Not that we would come back only to cheat again. We would come back into a faithful covenantal relationship.

Prayer:

Father, we come humbly into Your presence. We come aware that we have been unfaithful. We come with the awareness from Ezekiel that You’re not aloof about that. It's…You’re not indifferent to it. You want our best. You want our good. You want to bestow upon us all of the goodness of life forever. For while we are here upon this earth and for evermore to be in Your presence. And we seem to chase every little lie that promises life and we get so distracted and so confused that we don’t even realize that we have offended You, that we have betrayed You. And, so, our first responses is…is repentance, is humility, is to fall down before You with an awareness of what we’ve done and to sit with it, to sit with what it means to repent and change by sitting here and absorbing that we have broken Your heart. The irony is that we may need to sit there for a long time, but You don’t expect that we would stay there. That’s not Your goal. Your goal is our restoration and our restoration can only happen when we return to You. And, so, we are returning to You and humbling ourselves before You in taking this image of this priceless little baby girl who was left to die as the story of our own lives. You came and got us. We’re here because You came and got us. May that sink into the soil today changing us irreversibly. We ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Song:

Ezekiel by Gungor

I found you naked
I found you lying there
In blood.

Your mother left you,
Your father threw you out.
Unloved.

I clothed your body
I washed the blood and dirt
From your hair.

I gave you jewelry
I gave you everything
I had.

I gave My heart
My heart, My love
I gave my heart,
My heart, My love

You became like
You were a stunning Bride
The world, they saw you
And how you loved their wives
My Bride

You broke My heart
My heart, My love
You broke My heart
My heart, My love.

You sold your body;
Exposed to all, My love
You slept with Stranger
You gave them everything we had.

Come back, My love
My love, come back.
Come back, My love.
My love, come back.

November 6, 2020

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Friday November 6, 2020 (NIV)

Ezekiel 14:12-16:41

Four Judgments

¹²The word of the Lord came to me.

¹³Son of man, when a land sins against me by adding one act of infidelity to another, so that I stretch out my hand against it to cut off its bread supply,^[a] to send famine against it, and to cut off man and beast from it, ¹⁴even if these three men were in its midst—Noah, Daniel, and Job—by their righteousness they would save only their own lives, declares the Lord God.

¹⁵If I cause wild animals to pass through the land and they rob it of its children, so that it becomes desolate, and no one can pass through because of the wild animals, ¹⁶and if these three men were in its midst, as I live, says the Lord God, they would not save either their sons or their daughters. They alone would be saved, but the land would be devastated.

¹⁷Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, “A sword shall pass through the land,” and I cut off from it man and beast, ¹⁸and these three men were in its midst, as I live, says the Lord God, they would not be able to save either their sons or their daughters, but they alone would be saved.

¹⁹Or if I send a plague on that land, and with bloodshed I pour out my wrath on it to cut off man and beast from it, ²⁰and if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in its midst, as I live, says the Lord God, they would not be able to save either their sons or their daughters. By their righteousness they would save only their own lives.

²¹For this is what the Lord God says. How much worse it will be when I send my four terrible judgments—sword, famine, wild animals, and plague—upon Jerusalem to cut off man and beast from it!

²²But wait! A group of survivors will be left in it, those sons and daughters who will be brought out. Look! They are coming out to you, and you shall see their ways and their actions. Then you will be comforted concerning the disaster that I brought upon Jerusalem, everything that I brought upon it. ²³And they will comfort you, because you will see their ways and their actions. Then you will know that it was not without cause that I did everything that I did against the city, declares the Lord God.

Jerusalem Is a Useless Vine

15 The word of the Lord came to me.

²Son of man, what can be done with the wood of a grapevine compared to the wood from the branches of all the other trees in the forest? ³Can its wood be used to make something useful? Can people make a peg from it to hang things on? ⁴No, it is fed into the fire for fuel. The fire devours both ends of it, and its middle is burned up. Is it useful for any purpose then? ⁵Since it could not be used for any purpose when it was undamaged, how much less can it be used to make anything useful after the fire has devoured it and it has been burned! ⁶Therefore, this is what the Lord says. Like the wood of the grapevine from among the trees of the forest, which I have fed into the fire for fuel, in the same way I will feed the inhabitants of Jerusalem into the fire. ⁷I will set my face against them. They have come out from the fire, but the fire will still devour them. Then you will know that I am the Lord when I set my face against them. ⁸I will make the land desolate because they added one infidelity to another, declares the Lord God.

Jerusalem, the Prostitute^[b]

16 The word of the Lord came to me.

²Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her abominations. ³Tell them this is what the Lord God says to Jerusalem.

Your origin and your birth were from the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. ⁴This is the way it was at your birth. On the day you were born, your umbilical cord was not cut, and you were not washed with water to clean you up.^[c] You were not rubbed down with salt, nor were you tightly wrapped with cloths. ⁵No eye looked at you with pity to do any of these things for you or to show compassion to you. On the day you were born, you were thrown out in the open field without regard for your life.

⁶I passed by, and I saw you squirming in your blood. I said to you, “You there, lying there in your blood, live!” and I said to you, “You there, lying there in your blood, live!”^[d] ⁷I made you grow like a sprout in the field. You grew up, you developed, and you became very beautiful.^[e] Your breasts were formed and your hair had appeared, but you were completely naked. ⁸I passed by and saw you, and I noticed that you were old enough for love.^[f] So I spread the skirt of my robe over you and covered your nakedness. I swore an oath to you to enter into a covenant of marriage with you, declares the Lord God, and you became mine. ⁹I washed you with water. I washed your blood off you. I anointed you with oil. ¹⁰I clothed you with the finest embroidered material and gave you sandals of luxurious leather.^[g] I wrapped your head in the best linen and covered you with silk. ¹¹I adorned you with jewelry. I put bracelets on your wrists and a necklace around your neck. ¹²I put a ring on your nose, earrings on your ears, and a glorious crown on your head. ¹³So you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was made of the best linen, with silk and the finest embroidered material. You ate fine flour, honey, and olive oil. You were extraordinarily beautiful, and you attained the status of a queen. ¹⁴Your fame spread throughout the nations because of your beauty. In fact, it was perfect because of my splendor, which I had bestowed upon you, declares the Lord God.

¹⁵But you trusted in your beauty, and, relying on your fame, you acted like a prostitute. You lavished your lust on every man passing by—you became his. ¹⁶You took some of your clothing and made colorful high places for yourself and acted like a prostitute on them. Such things should not happen. They should not be! ¹⁷You took your glorious articles made from my gold and my silver, which I had given to you, and you made male idols for yourself, and you acted like a prostitute with them. ¹⁸You took your clothing made of the finest embroidered material and covered the idols, and you set my oil and my incense in front of them. ¹⁹Also my food which I gave you—the fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you—you set in front of them as a fragrant sacrifice. This is what happened, declares the Lord God.

²⁰You even took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore for me, and sacrificed them as food for the idols. Was your continual prostitution not enough? ²¹Did you have to slaughter my children and offer them to the idols by making them pass through the fire? ²²With all your abominations and your prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were completely naked, when you were squirming about in your blood. ²³So after all your wickedness—woe, woe to you, says the Lord God!— ²⁴you built for yourself a platform,^[h] and you made a pavilion^[i] for yourself in every public square. ²⁵At the corner of every street you set up your pavilion and made your beauty into a disgusting thing. You spread your legs for every man passing by, and you multiplied your acts of prostitution. ²⁶You acted like a whore with the sons of Egypt, your neighbors with their enlarged flesh,^[j] and you multiplied your acts of prostitution to enrage me!

²⁷Look at how I stretched out my hand against you. I reduced your territory. I gave you up to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were embarrassed by your lewd ways. ²⁸You acted like a whore with the sons of the Assyrians because you were insatiable. Even after your acts of prostitution with them, you were not satisfied. ²⁹So you extended your whoring ways to the land of merchants, to Chaldea, but even with this you were not satisfied. ³⁰How sick your heart is, says the Lord God, that you did all these things, the behavior of a woman who is a domineering whore! ³¹When you built your platform at the corner of every street and you made your pavilion in every public square, you were not like an ordinary prostitute, because you refused payment. ³²You adulterous wife, who procures strange men instead of her husband, ³³to all prostitutes men pay a fee, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from all around to join your whoring ways. ³⁴You were the opposite of the other women in your whoring ways. You were not solicited for prostitution, but you gave payment to your lovers. Instead of payment being given to you, you were the very opposite.

³⁵Therefore, you whore, hear the word of the Lord! ³⁶This is what the Lord God says. Because your moisture^[k] was poured out, and your nakedness was exposed during your whoring ways with your lovers, because of all your disgusting, filthy idols, and because of the blood of your children, whom you gave to them, ³⁷for all this, I am about to gather all your lovers to whom you were giving pleasure—all those you loved, as well as all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around. I will expose your nakedness to them, and they will see your nakedness. ³⁸I will judge you with the judgments deserved by women who commit adultery and who shed blood. I will make you bloody in my wrath and jealousy.^[l] ³⁹I will deliver you into their hands, and they will tear down your platform, demolish your pavilion, strip you of your clothing, take away your glorious jewelry, and leave you completely naked. ⁴⁰They will bring up a mob against you, and they will stone you and hack you to pieces with their swords. ⁴¹They will burn down your houses with fire and carry out judgments against you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop being a whore, and you will never again give a payment.

Footnotes:

Ezekiel 14:13 Literally break its staff of bread
Ezekiel 16:1 Ezekiel 16 and 23 are shockingly graphic. Ezekiel uses ugly language to describe Israel’s ugly actions. These chapters dramatically proclaim how ugly sin is in the eyes of a holy God, a message we dare not soften in our crass and immoral age.
Ezekiel 16:4 The meaning of this term is uncertain.
Ezekiel 16:6 Greek and Syriac manuscripts omit the repetition of and I said to you, “You there, lying there in your blood, live!”
Ezekiel 16:7 Or like the most beautiful jewelry
Ezekiel 16:8 Or your time was the time for love
Ezekiel 16:10 Literally the hides of sea cows. This type of leather was used in the Dwelling, which was constructed in the wilderness.
Ezekiel 16:24 The meaning of the word is uncertain. The ancient versions interpret it as a brothel.
Ezekiel 16:24 The meaning of the word is uncertain. The ancient versions interpret it as a brothel.
Ezekiel 16:26 Literally large flesh. Flesh here refers to genitals.
Ezekiel 16:36 Or secretion. This is a Hebrew word of uncertain meaning, which occurs only here in the Bible. Perhaps it refers to vaginal fluid.
Ezekiel 16:38 In God, jealousy is a demand for exclusive loyalty. He can tolerate no other gods.

Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV)

Hebrews 7:18-28

¹⁸To be sure, the former requirement is annulled, because it was weak and useless— ¹⁹for the law did not bring anything to its goal—but now a better hope is introduced, by which we approach God.

²⁰And something like this did not happen without an oath. Indeed, others who became priests did so without an oath, ²¹but this one became a priest with an oath, through the one who said to him:

The Lord has sworn an oath
and will not change his mind:
“You are a priest forever.”^[a]

²²In this way, Jesus has become the guarantor^[b] of a better covenant.^[c]

²³There were many who became priests because death prevented any of them from continuing to remain in office. ²⁴But because this one endures forever, he has a permanent priesthood. ²⁵So for this reason he is able to save forever those who come to God through him, because he always lives to plead on their behalf.

Jesus Is the High Priest We Need

²⁶This is certainly the kind of high priest we needed: one who is holy, innocent, pure, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. ²⁷Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices on a daily basis, first for his own sins and then for the sins of the people. In fact, he sacrificed for sins once and for all when he offered himself. ²⁸For the law appoints as high priests men who have weaknesses. But the word of the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son, who has been brought to his goal forever.

Footnotes:

Hebrews 7:21 Psalm 110:4. Some witnesses to the text add like Melchizedek.
Hebrews 7:22 A guarantor is someone who guarantees to pay for another person’s debt.
Hebrews 7:22 The Greek term translated covenant (diatheke) can also be translated testament or will, depending on the context.

Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV)

Psalm 106:1-12

Psalm 106

Israel Forgets

Introduction

¹Praise the Lord.^[a]

Give thanks to the Lord,
for he is good,
for his mercy endures forever.

²Who can tell about the mighty deeds of the Lord?
Who can cause all his praise to be heard?
³Blessed are those who defend justice,
who do what is right all the time.
⁴Remember me, O Lord,
when you show favor to your people.
Visit me with your salvation,
⁵so that I may experience the good that belongs to your chosen ones,
so that I may rejoice in the joy of your nation,
so that I may join in praise with the people that belongs to you.

Rebellion in Egypt

⁶We have sinned along with our fathers.
We have become guilty. We have acted wickedly.
⁷Our fathers in Egypt did not reflect on your wonders.
They did not remember your abundant mercies,
so they rebelled beside the sea, by the Red Sea.

God’s Grace

⁸Nevertheless, he saved them for his name’s sake,
to make his might known.
⁹Then he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up.
He caused them to go through the deep sea as if it were a desert.
¹⁰He saved them from the hand of the one who hated them.
He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
¹¹Then the waters covered their foes.
Not one of them remained.
¹²Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.

Footnotes:

Psalm 106:1 Hebrew hallelu Yah

Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV)

Proverbs 27:4-6

⁴Cruel wrath and a flood of anger are devastating,
but who can stand up against jealousy?
⁵Open correction is better than concealed love.
⁶Wounds from someone who loves you can be trusted,
but the kisses of someone who hates you are too much.^[a]

Footnotes:

Proverbs 27:6 Or are deceitful

Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV)

November 5, 2020

11/05/2020 DAB Transcript

Ezekiel 12:1-14:11, Hebrews 7:1-17, Psalms 105:37-45, Proverbs 27:3

Today is the 5^th day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian and it is great to be here with you like every day. It’s always good to be in the presence of God’s people and realize that we are knit together as one body and together we’re taking this journey in community through the Scriptures. And, so, let’s get to it for today. We’re reading from the Evangelical Heritage Version. Ezekiel chapter 12 verse 1 through 14 verse 11.

Commentary:

Okay. So, in the book of Hebrews today we came across a name that we have come across before earlier in our reading of the Old Testament, that name is Melchizedek. And we talked about Melchizedek man like a couple of weeks into our journey back when we were in the book of Genesis. And we said, you know, later on this year we’re gonna come across his name again and begin to find out why this guy’s in the Bible. And this is one of these times when we’re gonna dive into something in the book of Hebrews, and it’s all Hebrew centric. Like we have to understand the Hebrew context for this to make any sense, which is true of so much of Christian theology. Like Jesus was Hebrew, He came in a Hebrew context, right? And He ministered in a Hebrew context. So, to try to get at the essence of the…the things He was commenting on and the things He was inviting people into is within that context. So, we have to understand that context for it to have any real…real meaning to we who are Gentiles. So, we first encounter Melchizedek in the book of Genesis chapter 14. And I will read. There’s just a couple of sentences. “And Melchizedek the king of Salem and a priest of God most high brought Abram some bread and wine. Melchizedek blessed Abram with this blessing. Blessed to be Abram God most high creator of heaven and earth and blessed be God most high, who has defeated your enemies for you. And Abram gave Melchizedek a 10^th of all the goods he had recovered.” Okay. So, we met Melchizedek in the book of Genesis and I just read everything there is about Melchizedek there is in the book of Genesis. So, the writer of Hebrews is right. There is no ancestry here. There is like no understanding of where this person came from or where they went. Then in the book of Psalms, chapter 110, we see Melchizedek again. “The Lord has taken an oath and will not break his vow. You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.” The order of Melchizedek. Like what is that? Is that a group of some people who have special robes, like some kind of special color lining or some sort of special belt or ring or…like how you get in the order of Melchizedek and who is Melchizedek since the Bible gives us so little? And in Psalm 110 this reference to Melchizedek is paralleling King David. So, why is this in the book of Hebrews and how is this connected to Jesus? So, basically we meet Melchizedek in the book of Genesis with Abraham and as we’ve learned from pretty much all of the writings of the apostle Paul, his conviction was that the whole thing starts with Abraham, not really, with Moses and the Torah. Abraham was the first person to receive the promise. So, this is where we find Melchizedek, with Abraham. But there’s significant time between Abraham and King David and then there’s significant time between King David and Jesus. And yet these are the times in the Scriptures when Melchizedek shows up. So, we could say that Melchizedek as a figure remained in the oral traditions of the Hebrew people and continued to capture their imagination all along. And I can remember a couple of years ago just going, “alright, I’ve heard the order of Melchizedek my whole life. What is the order of Melchizedek? How does this work? Who is this person? Like, what’s this doing in the Bible?” And you start going down that rabbit hole or that bunny trail or whatever you want to call you and it turns into a wormhole. Like you can get lost in it, things that people have thought over the millennia. It’s just vast and wild. And if that’s like right down your alley then this is the place to go for everything from pure science fiction to just really inter…interesting interpretations. But here is how we can tie it together from the Scriptures themselves. Melchizedek – Melchi - zedek does mean king of justice or king of righteousness as we’re told in Hebrews. He was the king of Salem, which also means the king of peace according to Hebrews. We can say that he is the very first priest of the most-high God, or El Elion that appears in any of the Bible. Like this is…this is midway through the book of Genesis. The Torah hasn’t been written and won’t be written for centuries. There is no Bible, at least as we now know it at all at this time. Rules for appointing priests out of the tribe of Levi, the descendants of Aaron, like none of this exists. Aaron hasn’t been born. He won’t be born for centuries. And yet we have this figure Melchizedek the priest of El Elion, the most-high God. So, if we just take the meanings of the names here, which is something that’s often done in biblical interpretations, trying to find the layers and we would…would end up saying Melchizedek was the first, named at least, righteous priests of the most high God, and a man who also happened to be the king of Salem or the king of peace. Ok, so that’s Genesis. Then if…if we jump a thousand years into the future and we come into King David’s time all the things that we said didn’t exist had come into existence, right? Moses came, people were let out of slavery, the Torah, the law was given, the Levites were appointed, how priests came to be priests had a process, they came from a specific tribe, the Levites, a set apart tribe that didn’t really own any property but were cared for by God’s people as they cared for God’s people and always continually reminded them who they were and who God was and where they’re going. And yet in Psalm 110 we see that David is being called a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek and David wasn’t a Levite. So, how does David get to be a priest forever to El Elion, the most-high God when he like…when God’s rules have been given and David is of the tribe of Judah not of the tribe of Levi? This is where it gets kid of really fascinating. So, Melchizedek was a priest of the most-high God, also the king of Salem. So, Melchizedek was a priest and a king, a priestly king. And David was king in Jerusalem. Jeru - Salem, same city. So, then the order of Melchizedek is a priestly king and David is being set apart to be a priestly king like Melchizedek despite tribal affiliation or the Mosaic law in the same city. So, if…if we’re following this line of reasoning than David’s role as a priestly king was a special exemption or a special exception - the order of Melchizedek. Okay, then Jesus, who is an ancestor, humanly speaking of the line of David seems to bring this fascination with Melchizedek, like to bring it to a conclusion. Jesus is a priestly king in the order of Melchizedek, a king of peace. And, so, since we’ve quoted Genesis and Psalms then let’s go back to, Hebrews, and I quote Hebrews. “And this became even clearer if another priest arises like Melchizedek who became a priest not on the basis of a legal requirement about physical descent but on the basis of the power of an endless life. For it has been testified in Scripture about him, you are a priest forever like Melchizedek.” So, if you’ve, you know, heard the name Melchizedek before in your faith journey and you wondered about that then here’s some ways to look at the order of Melchizedek and why that’s connected to Jesus. But if we go back one layer than this gives us a good glimpse of what…of how necessary the Hebrew perspective is in understanding the theology of our faith, at least. And then if we go back one more layer behind that even we’re beginning to understand Jesus as a priest, as a high priest, something that isn’t really part of our vernacular, an understanding of our faith right now but from a Hebrew perspective is irreplaceable. And, so, Hebrews is written to Hebrews, but it gives us the Hebrew context for the Christian faith and we’ve explored some of that today.

Prayer:

Father we thank You for that. We thank You that we can just mine the Scriptures, that we can continually go deeper and there is no end. And with the guidance of Your Holy Spirit then we…we get enlightened we become aware, we see more and more and more. Of course, trying to do this without the guidance of Your Holy Spirit, then everything just gets so weird so quick as we can see in all of the various interpretations over millennia about this figure named Melchizedek. And, so, what we’re asking for is that You lead us into all truth. We ask it often. You’ve offered…You’ve offered to do that. You’ve given it as a gift and a promise and so we want that. We want to walk toward the truth every day of our lives, every moment of our lives. And as we become aware of Your Holy Spirit’s guidance that’s exactly what’s happening. And, so, we thank You for this context as we move forward through the book of Hebrews and we invite Your Holy Spirit to lead and guide and direct us in everything that we should see and everything that we should come to understand and everything that we should be aware of. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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November 5, 2020

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Thursday November 5, 2020 (NIV)

Ezekiel 12:1-14:11

An Action Prophecy About the Prince’s Exile

12 The word of the Lord came to me.

²Son of man, you are living in the middle of a rebellious house. They have eyes to see, but they do not see, and they have ears to hear, but they do not hear, because they are a rebellious house. ³Therefore, you, son of man, pack your baggage for exile, and depart into exile during the daytime, while they are watching. You are to depart into exile from your place to another place, while they are watching. Perhaps they will see that they are a rebellious house. ⁴You are to bring out your baggage, packed for exile, during the daytime, while they are watching. Then in the evening, while they are watching, you are to go out like someone going into exile. ⁵While they are watching, dig through the wall, and bring out your baggage through it. ⁶While they are watching, lift it up on your shoulder, and carry it out at dusk. Cover your face so that you cannot see the ground, for I have made you a warning sign to the house of Israel.

⁷I did that, exactly as I was commanded. I brought out my baggage, packed for exile, during the daytime, and then in the evening I dug through the wall by hand. When it was getting dark, I brought my baggage out. I carried it on my shoulder while they were watching.

⁸In the morning the word of the Lord came to me. ⁹“Son of man, hasn’t the house of Israel, that rebellious house, asked you, ‘What are you doing?’ ¹⁰You are to tell them that this is what the Lord God says.”

This burdensome prophecy is about the burdensome prince in Jerusalem,^[a] together with the whole house of Israel who are in its midst.

¹¹Say to them, “I am a warning sign for you.”

Exactly what I have done will be done to them. Into exile, into captivity, they will go. ¹²The prince who is in their midst will carry his baggage on his shoulder at dusk and go out. They will dig through the wall to bring him out through it. He will cover his face, so he will not see the ground with his own eyes. ¹³I will spread out my net for him, and he will be caught in my trap. I will bring him to Babylon, to the land of the Chaldeans, but he will not see it, and there he will die. ¹⁴All those who are around him, his aides and all his troops, I will scatter to every wind, and I will unsheathe my sword against them. ¹⁵Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I scatter them among the nations and disperse them across many countries. ¹⁶But from among them I will let a small number survive the sword, famine, and plague, in order that they may tell about all their abominations among the nations where they go. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

¹⁷The word of the Lord came to me.

¹⁸Son of man, you are to eat your food with trembling, and you are to drink your water with shuddering and anxiety. ¹⁹You are to say to the people of the land: This is what the Lord God says about the inhabitants of Jerusalem on the soil of Israel. They will eat their food with anxiety and drink their water with horror, because everything that filled the land will be devastated because of the violence of all its inhabitants. ²⁰The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will be devastated. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Two Sayings About Prophecy

²¹The word of the Lord came to me.

²²Son of man, what is this saying that you have about the homeland of Israel: “The days keep going by, and every vision fails”?

²³Therefore say this to them. This is what the Lord God says. I will put an end to this saying, and they will no longer use it as a saying in Israel. On the contrary, say to them, “The days are near when every vision will be fulfilled.” ²⁴For no longer will there be any empty, unreliable visions or slippery, misleading omens within the house of Israel. ²⁵For I am the Lord. Whatever word I speak will be fulfilled. It will be delayed no longer. For in your own days, you rebellious house, I will speak a word and fulfill it, declares the Lord God.

²⁶The word of the Lord came to me.

²⁷Son of man, listen to what the house of Israel is saying: “The vision that he is seeing is for many days in the future, and he is prophesying for distant times.” ²⁸Therefore, tell the Israelites this is what the Lord God says. None of my words will be delayed any longer, because I will speak a word and it will be fulfilled, declares the Lord God.

False Prophets and Prophetesses

13 The word of the Lord came to me.

²Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are prophesying. You are to say to the prophets who prophesy from their own heart: Hear the word of the Lord.

³This is what the Lord God says. Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and prophesy things which they have not seen. ⁴Israel, your prophets are like jackals among the ruins. ⁵You have not stepped up into the breaks in the wall, nor have you repaired the wall for the house of Israel, so that it could stand up in battle on the Day of the Lord. ⁶They see empty visions and their omens predict lies—those who say, “The declaration of the Lord,” when the Lord has not sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfill their word. ⁷Have you not, in fact, seen an empty vision and predicted lies when you say, “The declaration of the Lord,” when, in fact, I have not spoken? ⁸Therefore, this is what the Lord God says. Because you have spoken empty words and have seen a lying vision, therefore, I am surely against you, declares the Lord God. ⁹My hand will come upon the prophets who see empty visions and predict a lie. They will not remain in the council of my people. They will not be recorded in the register of the house of Israel, and they will not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord God.

¹⁰This will happen precisely because they have misled my people by saying, “Peace,” when there is no peace. When someone builds a flimsy wall, look how the false prophets daub it with a coat of mud plaster.^[b] ¹¹Tell those who are daubing with plaster that the wall will fall. There will be driving rain, large hailstones will fall,^[c] and a violent wind will break out, ¹²and suddenly the wall will fall. Won’t they say to you, “Where is the mud plaster you daubed on now?”

¹³Therefore, this is what the Lord God says. In my wrath I will make a violent wind break out, and there will be driving rain because of my anger. In my wrath I will send large hailstones that bring destruction. ¹⁴I will demolish the wall that you have daubed with mud plaster. I will level it to the ground, so that its foundation will be exposed. It will fall, and you will perish within the city. Then you will know that I am the Lord. ¹⁵In this way I will exhaust my wrath against the wall and against those who daubed it with mud plaster, and I will say to you, “Gone is the wall, and gone are those who daubed on it— ¹⁶those prophets of Israel who are prophesying about Jerusalem and who proclaim a vision of peace about her when there is no peace, declares the Lord God.”

¹⁷You, son of man, are to set your face against the daughters of your people, who are prophesying ecstatically from their own hearts. You are to prophesy against them. ¹⁸You are to say that this is what the Lord God says.

Woe to those women who sew magic bands for all their^[d] wrists and who make veils of every size for people’s heads in order to trap souls.^[e] Will you women trap the souls of my people, but preserve your own souls? ¹⁹You women profane me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread, killing people^[f] who should not die and keeping people alive who should not live. You do this by your lying to my people—those who listen to lies. ²⁰Therefore, this is what the Lord God says.

Listen. I am against your magic bands, with which you women trap souls like birds. I will tear them from your arms, and I will set free the souls that you trap like birds. ²¹I will tear off your veils and rescue my people from your hand. They will no longer be in your hand like prey. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

²²Because you have disheartened the righteous man with delusions, even though I have not intended to grieve him, and you have strengthened the hands of^[g] the wicked man, so that he does not repent of his evil way, and so he does not save his life, ²³therefore, you women will no longer proclaim empty words, and you will no longer deceive with false omens. I will rescue my people from your hand. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Rulings About Prophecy

14 Some men from the elders of Israel came to me and sat down in front of me. ²Then the word of the Lord came to me.

³Son of man, these men have set up their filthy idols^[h] in their hearts, and they have placed a stumbling block that makes them guilty in front of their faces. So should I really let them consult me? ⁴Therefore, speak with them and tell them this is what the Lord God says.

Whenever anyone from the house of Israel sets up his filthy idols in his heart or sets the stumbling block that makes him guilty in front of his face and he then comes to a prophet, I, the Lord, will give him an answer appropriate to the multitude of his filthy idols, ⁵so that I may capture the hearts of the house of Israel, for all of them have alienated themselves from me with their filthy idols. ⁶Therefore, tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord God says. Repent and turn away from your filthy idols, and turn your faces away from all your abominations.

⁷Certainly, anyone from the house of Israel or an alien who is residing in Israel, if he alienates himself from me and sets up his filthy idols in his heart and puts the stumbling block that makes him guilty in front of his face, and he then comes to a prophet to seek my guidance for himself, I myself, the Lord, will give him an answer. ⁸I will set my face against that man, and I will make him into a sign and a notorious example, and I will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

⁹If a prophet acts like a fool^[i] and speaks a message, I, the Lord, have made a fool of that prophet.^[j] I will stretch out my hand against him, and I will destroy him from among my people Israel. ¹⁰They will bear their guilt. The guilt of the one who seeks guidance will be the same as the guilt of the prophet, ¹¹so that the house of Israel will no longer stray from following me, and they will never again defile themselves by all their rebellious acts. They will be my people, and I will be their God, declares the Lord God.

Footnotes:

Ezekiel 12:10 The Hebrew reads the prince [is] this burden in Jerusalem. The word for burden can sometimes refer to a warning prophecy, so there is a play on words in this prophecy—the prince carries a burden and he is a burden.
Ezekiel 13:10 Or whitewash
Ezekiel 13:11 The Hebrew text reads O you (feminine plural) large hailstones will fall. Alternate versions read I will give large hailstones that will fall.
Ezekiel 13:18 The translation follows an alternate Hebrew reading. The main reading is my wrists.
Ezekiel 13:18 Or lives
Ezekiel 13:19 Literally souls
Ezekiel 13:22 Or have encouraged
Ezekiel 14:3 Gillulim, one of Ezekiel’s favorite names for Israel’s idols, is a harsh word. Gillulim means idols made from round things. The round things are dung balls; hence the term could be rendered dung-ball deities or horse-apple gods, but even these terms may be too gentle. One of the four-letter words for excrement may be closer to the mark.
Ezekiel 14:9 Or is persuaded or lets himself be persuaded
Ezekiel 14:9 Or have persuaded that prophet. The line is difficult. God is not the source of sin, but God does allow a false prophet to go his own way in order to use him as an instrument of judgment. Examples include the false prophets who led Ahab to his death and the witch of Endor, who drove Saul to his death.

Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV)

Hebrews 7:1-17

A Priest Forever

7 This Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, is the one who met Abraham as he was returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him,^[a] ²and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything.^[b] First, Melchizedek means “king of righteousness,” and then “king of Salem,” which is “king of peace.” ³He is without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, and resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.

⁴Consider how great this man was. Even Abraham, the patriarch, gave him a tenth from the best of the spoils. ⁵According to the law, those sons of Levi who received the priesthood have a command to collect a tenth from the people, that is, from their brother Israelites, even though they also came from Abraham’s body. ⁶But here the one who was not descended from them collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises. ⁷And without any question, it is the lesser who is blessed by the greater.

⁸In the one case, those who are mortal collect the tenth; in the other case, the one who collects has testimony in Scripture^[c] that he lives. ⁹And, through Abraham, even Levi, who collects the tenth, has paid a tenth, so to speak, ¹⁰because he was still in the body of his forefather when Melchizedek met Abraham.

¹¹So if everything could have been brought to its goal through the Levitical priesthood (for the people received the law on the basis of that priesthood), what further need was there for another priest to arise who was like Melchizedek, yet not said to be like Aaron? ¹²For when the priesthood is changed, by necessity a change in the law also happens. ¹³Yet these things are said about the one who belonged to another tribe, from which no one had served at the altar. ¹⁴It is certainly clear that our Lord is descended from Judah. Moses said nothing about priests in connection with that tribe.

¹⁵And this becomes even clearer if another priest arises like Melchizedek, ¹⁶who became a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement about physical descent, but on the basis of the power of an endless^[d] life. ¹⁷For it has been testified in Scripture about him:

You are a priest forever, like Melchizedek.^[e]

Footnotes:

Hebrews 7:1 Genesis 14:17-20
Hebrews 7:2 Genesis 14:20
Hebrews 7:8 The Greek term for has testimony appears six more times in this letter (Hebrews 7:17; 10:15; 11:2,4,5,39). Each time it clearly implies by usage and context that it is referring to testimony in Scripture.
Hebrews 7:16 Or indestructible
Hebrews 7:17 Psalm 110:4

Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV)

Psalm 105:37-45

³⁷Then he brought Israel out with silver and gold.
From among their tribes no one stumbled.
³⁸Egypt was glad when they went out,
because fear of Israel had fallen on them.

The Lord Is Faithful in the Wilderness

³⁹He spread out a cloud as a canopy
and fire to give light at night.
⁴⁰They asked, and he brought quail,
and he satisfied them with bread from heaven.
⁴¹He opened the rock, and water gushed out.
It flowed in the desert like a river.

The Lord Is Faithful in the Land

⁴²Because he remembered his holy word to Abraham, his servant,
⁴³he brought out his people with rejoicing,
his chosen ones with a joyful shout.
⁴⁴He gave them the lands of the nations,
and they took possession of the work of other peoples
⁴⁵so that they could keep his statutes and observe his laws.

Praise the Lord.^[a]

Footnotes:

Psalm 105:45 Hebrew hallelu Yah

Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV)

Proverbs 27:3

³A stone is heavy and sand is a burden,
but aggravation from a stubborn fool is heavier than both.

Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV)

November 4, 2020

11/04/2020 DAB Transcript

Ezekiel 10:1-11:25, Hebrews 6:1-20, Psalms 105:16-36, Proverbs 27:1-2

Today is the 4^th day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is a joy, it is an honor, it is a privilege, it is a gift, sometimes I even think it’s a miracle that we can be together like this today, right now, around the Global Campfire just coming in out of the chaos of it all finding a place to sit, it’s warm, friends are here. We look across the fire, we see each other, and we know that we are united in spirit, we’re after the same thing - to let God’s word speak truth. It is one of the joys of life to be around this campfire with you and take the next step forward. And, so, let’s do that. We are reading from the EHV, the Evangelical Heritage Version this week and continuing our journey through the book of Ezekiel. Today chapters 10 and 11.

Commentary:

Okay. Let’s go back to the Proverbs again. The Proverbs are giving us these, you know, one or two sentences yesterday and today again that are just so penetrating and so now and so immediate and so much of a mirror into our own souls, and so much of a light shining into the world around us, So, today we had two verses, two sentences, and they say a ton. “Do not boast about tomorrow because you do not know what a day may produce.” Right there…I mean right there should bring just a generous dose of humility. No matter what eventualities we have prepared for we have no idea what is coming in our direction. And the humbling thing is that our Father does. We are under the shadow of His wings for us but for us to be out there running our mouths about what we’re gonna do tomorrow, like what’s coming is ultimately not certain. No matter what kind of certainty we say it with there is no way that we can know that outside of walking with God. And in a lot of ways this entire year has been that kind of a metaphor, all kinds of unexpected transitional things in our lives and in our world that we’ve had to adapt to and kinda fight against and accept and all kinds of disruption letting us know how fragile the whole thing is. And we’ve spent so much of our energy just trying to figure out how to get back to how it was when God is only going forward. We’re being invited forward not backward. But then on the heels of the confidence and the boasting about what we’re gonna to do tomorrow, like about how confident we are in our strength and whatever may come we have this second sentence right on the heels of it –“let someone else praise you, not your own mouth, a stranger not your own lips.” You know people who are just…just…like…like their selves are the only thing they think about, apparently, because that’s the only thing they talk about? You know what I’m talking about, where somebody…you can be sharing your day, you can be sharing something deep in your life, but one way or another all they seem to think about is themselves? And, so, they’ll flip the whole thing back around, they’ll acknowledge you, but what they really want to do is just talk about themselves. And you know how challenging it can be to be in a relationship with that kind of a person because it’s only about them. And, so, ultimately this kind of self-promotion, this bragging constantly, the boasting, the praising of self continually out of their mouths, they are awesome and their spouse is awesome and their children are awesome and their everything is awesome…ahh…that just gets repellent after a while. That kind of person ends up alone eventually because…well…for a couple reasons. First of all, it’s a front, it’s that layer of falseness that we were talking about yesterday. So, eventually it all comes down like a house of cards. Nobody is as interested as one might have thought and people begin to back away because really this person doesn’t want to be in a relationship with anybody else. They just need to be seen by other people. Like, they’re on the stage and everybody else in the world is in the audience. So, the world is there stage and everybody else is a bit player in their story. And eventually there’s like no life there. And, so, people retreat and back away when all of this fronting. all of this boasting, all of this drawing attention to oneself really is exposing something very needy underneath, that this person needs to trust, this person needs to find a true friendship, one were the fake…like the Halloween costume comes off and what’s real is really exposed to somebody trusted. And ultimately this leads us to the fact that…yah…it can be dangerous to be in relationships, but you have to start with a foundation of trust in God. God already knows you’re faking. You can’t fool God. He already knows everything that’s going. He can’t be duped. And He still loves you as you are right now with the deep desire and hope that you will enter into relationship with Him where these broken things can be healed and you can be utterly transformed, transformed so much that you begin to resemble Him. You become Christ like. That’s what’s going on here. That’s the goal. And the more layers of falseness that we apply to this, the more difficult the challenge until life one day confronts us and strips it all away. And then we find that to be such a difficult process but then we reflect back upon it, we realize that was the moment we became free because all that we had feared finally happened and it wasn’t as bad as we thought it was and now we’re free to be who we are and to delight in who everybody else is because we don’t need to be better, we don’t need to compare, we’re not in a competition. There is no game going on. There is no cosmic God game where He’s looking to see which one of us human beings is going to achieve the most to be the number one human being. We’re His children. We’re His kids. That’s not what you do to your kids. So, why are we doing it to each other? Because it only leads us into falseness. So once again, “do not boast about tomorrow because you do not know what a day may produce. Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth, a stranger, not your own lips.”

Prayer:

Father, we enter into that acknowledging, even though we don’t live like this most of the time, the thing that we need is You. It…it's…it’s Your words of praise, it’s Your words of encouragement, it’s Your drawing year that we need. It’s being seen by You that we long for and we exchange it and we try to compete with each other and we try to live in a very, very backward way that is never gonna work, which is essentially what You were saying Jesus in the Beatitudes – this is a backward world, this is not gonna work, it’s the opposite of what You think it is. And, so, help us Holy Spirit to get our minds right, to get our minds in alignment with Yours, the mind of Christ on things, to get our Spirits right, to know that we are inseparably intertwined with You, to get on the same page that we might actually be free. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Our Father who art in heaven ancient of days
omnipotent and omniscient worthy of all praise
Jehovah raphe Jehovah jireh our healer our provider
we come to you open with our hearts and minds hoping
that you are still willing to bless as we humbly confess
that you’re worthy of all honor though we’ve given you much less
wondering in confusion because we buy into illusion
greedily gulping down a great big slice of the devils pie
exchanging your wonderful truth for a lie
and we need you to heal us both outside and in
strengthen us father revive us again
Jehovah nisi our banner our fortress our friend
please help us heavenly father we love you Amen

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Hey this is Jared calling from Duluth Minnesota it’s day 555 in my journey since April 26, 2019 in the Daily Audio Bible renewal time where God wakes me up every morning early in the morning to spend time with Him. What a great time it was today in Hebrews chapter 4 verse 12 saying for the word of God is quick and powerful sharper than any two-edged sword. And then going on that God has been tempted in all points like as we are yet without sin and we lay naked before Him. He knows us better than what we know ourselves and yet we can come boldly to the throne of grace to find help in a time of need. And there’s a time of great need and all of our lives right now. The world is turned upside down, full of turmoil. I know personally I appreciate your prayers for my son Steve as we’ve been estranged from him for now year as he got mad at us and disowned us and hasn’t spoke to us now for almost…almost a year. On the fourth is his birthday. He’s coming up from the cities, Twin Cities, tomorrow and I’ve reached out to him to see if we can get together and…and…and talk and chat and for him to…to be reconciled with him. I appreciate your prayers that that might happen. But in any case, we know that God is in control through all the trial and turmoil of what’s going on right now. May God give us grace, mercy, help in time of need. God bless.

Good morning DABbers this is Running Desperately to Jesus also known as Staying Connected Desperately to Jesus which right now that is definitely my filling, running desperately and staying desperately connected. I am…have always struggled with depression and was on medication and therapy for some time. My therapist retired in 2016 after she was able to get me stable from being sexually assaulted. Today I’m feeling quite depressed. I don’t know if it’s this Covid or what’s going on but I am in definitely a dark place now and what is crossing my mind a lot lately for the past couple days is suicide and I know that is definitely Satan’s work and I’m having a difficult time hearing of God’s word and His voice. So, I’m asking all my DABbers to lift me up to pray me through. I don’t want to go back into therapy because since my…as I said earlier…my therapist that I was formerly with who is very good retired, and I don’t want to start over again. I know that this can be fought with word…with God’s word but right now because I am in a dark place, I cannot even call upon His word. So, DABbers I’m just asking again that you stand in the gap for me to lift me up and to help pull me through this dark space, these dark thoughts, especially the source idle thoughts. I don’t have any friends that really call to check on me. So, I’m actually in this by myself. Running Desperately to Jesus.

Hello, it’s John from Bristol in the UK again. I called a couple months back about my father. He has mental health issues and it’s causing a separation between him and my mother. So, he still has the same delusions. He’s adamant he doesn’t want to go home, and they had such a happy marriage before he had this psychotic episode. But…and he’s still in hospital but he’s…he’s much more stable than he was which is an improvement but mom and dad have a meeting on Wednesday this week. So, if you guys would just cover that in prayer for reconciliation of their marriage that would be wonderful. Thank you so much. God bless.

Hi, DAB it’s Emmy from Illinois just calling in with continued prayer requests for my marriage. I’m struggling right now. Things are a lot better than they were but I’m feeling extremely lonely. Just…I miss…miss having relationships with people, especially right now when the one person in my life doesn’t really want a relationship with me. I know God’s at work. I know that He’s still called me to stand for my marriage but I’m really struggling right now to just want something to be done either finally ended or create a breakthrough. And I don’t know what’s happening and I’m just getting lonely. And as we get closer to the holidays and my 40^th birthday it just makes it even worse because I know I won’t be seeing friends or family. So, if you could just continue to pray for me, I would appreciate it. Thank you.

November 4, 2020

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Wednesday November 4, 2020 (NIV)

Ezekiel 10-11

The Glory Is Seen Again

10 Then I looked, and there, above the vaulted ceiling^[a] that was over the heads of the cherubim, there was something that looked like a sapphire, shaped like a throne. It could be seen above the cherubim. ²The Lord^[b] said to the man dressed in linen, “Reach into the structure for the wheels that is beneath the cherubim, fill your cupped hands with fiery coals from among the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.” So he went in while I watched.

³Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple while he, the man, approached, and the cloud filled the inner courtyard. ⁴Then the Glory of the Lord rose from above the cherubim and moved to the threshold of the temple. The temple was filled with the cloud, and the courtyard was full of the radiance of the Glory of the Lord. ⁵The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far away as the outer courtyard, like the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.

⁶When he commanded the man dressed in linen, “Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubim,” the man went and stood beside the wheel. ⁷Then a cherub stretched out his hand from among the cherubim and reached into the fire that was between the cherubim. He lifted up some coals, and he put them into the cupped hands of the man dressed in linen, and the man took them and went out.

⁸The cherubim had something that seemed like the form of a human hand under their wings.

⁹Then I looked, and right there beside the cherubim were four wheels, one wheel beside each cherub, and the wheels looked like topaz. ¹⁰The four of them all looked alike—there was a wheel inside each wheel.^[c] ¹¹The cherubim could move in any of the four directions toward which one of them faced, without turning as they moved. They went straight ahead in the direction they faced, never turning from side to side.^[d]

¹²Their entire body, their back, their hands, their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes all around. (I mean the wheels that belonged to the four of them.) ¹³As for the wheels, they were called “wheelwork”^[e] in my hearing.

¹⁴Each one of the cherubim had four faces. One face was the face of a cherub.^[f] The second face was the face of a man. The third was the face of a lion, and the fourth was the face of an eagle.

¹⁵Then the cherubim rose. These were the living creatures that I had seen by the Kebar Canal. ¹⁶Whenever the cherubim moved, the wheels moved alongside them, and whenever the cherubim lifted up their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not turn away from their side. ¹⁷When the cherubim stood still, the wheels would stand still, and when the cherubim rose, the wheels would rise with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

¹⁸Then the Glory of the Lord moved out from the threshold of the temple and took a position above the cherubim. ¹⁹As I watched, the cherubim lifted up their wings and rose from the ground. As they went out, the wheels remained beside them. They^[g] stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the House of the Lord, and the Glory of the God of Israel was above the cherubim. ²⁰These were the living creatures that I had seen beneath the God of Israel at the Kebar Canal, and I now knew that they were cherubim. ²¹Each one had four faces, and each had four wings, with something like the hands of a man underneath their wings. ²²The faces looked like the faces that I had seen by the Kebar Canal—exactly the same. Each one went straight ahead.

Warning of Judgment

11 Then the Spirit^[h] lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the temple of the Lord, which faces east. There, at the entrance to the gateway, were twenty-five men, and among them I saw Ja’azaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, leaders of the people. ²He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who are plotting evil and giving wicked advice in this city, ³who are saying, ‘We will not have to build houses anytime soon.^[i] The city is the pot, and we are the meat.’ ⁴Therefore, prophesy against them. Prophesy, son of man.”

⁵Then the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and he told me to say this.

This is what the Lord says. This is what you are saying, house of Israel. I know what you have in mind. ⁶You have killed many people in this city and filled its streets with the slain. ⁷Therefore, this is what the Lord God says. Your slain, which you have placed within the city, are the meat, and the city is the pot. But I will drive you out of it. ⁸The sword is what you have feared, and I will bring the sword upon you, declares the Lord God. ⁹I^[j] will drive you out from it, hand you over to foreigners, and execute judgments on you. ¹⁰By the sword you will fall, and at the border of Israel I will judge you. Then you will know that I am the Lord. ¹¹This city will not be a pot for you, and you will not be the meat inside it. At the border of Israel I will judge you. ¹²Then you will know that I am the Lord, in whose statutes you have not walked and whose ordinances you have not obeyed, but instead you have acted according to the ordinances of the nations around you.

¹³While I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out in a loud voice. I said, “Oh no, Lord God, you are making a complete destruction of the remaining survivors of Israel!”

Promise of One Heart and a New Spirit

¹⁴Then the word of the Lord came to me.

¹⁵Son of man, your brothers, your brothers who have the right to redeem your property,^[k] and the whole house of Israel—all of it—to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem are saying, “Stay far away from the Lord! This land has been given to us as a possession.” ¹⁶Tell them that this is what the Lord God says.

Although I have removed them far away among the nations, and I have indeed scattered them among the lands, I will be a sanctuary for them for a little while in the lands to which they have gone.

¹⁷Therefore say, “This is what the Lord God says.” I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you from the lands where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. ¹⁸When they arrive back there, they will remove from it all its loathsome things and all its abominations. ¹⁹I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone from their body and give them a heart of flesh, ²⁰so that they will walk in my statutes and keep my ordinances and carry them out. They will be my people, and I will be their God. ²¹But as for those whose heart goes after their disgusting things and their abominations, I will bring down their conduct on their own heads, declares the Lord God.

The Glory Departs

²²Then the cherubim lifted up their wings. The wheels were beside them, and the Glory of the God of Israel was positioned above them. ²³The Glory of the Lord went up from the middle of the city and stood on the mountain east of the city. ²⁴The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the exiles in Chaldea, in the vision from the Spirit of God. Then the vision I had seen departed from me, and I told the exiles all the things from the Lord that he had shown to me.

Footnotes:

Ezekiel 10:1 Or platform
Ezekiel 10:2 The Hebrew reads he. The subject is provided for clarity.
Ezekiel 10:10 The inner wheel was apparently at right angles to the outer wheel, allowing the platform to move in any direction without the wheels turning from side to side.
Ezekiel 10:11 The expression is difficult. It apparently means that each one of the cherubim faced in one of the four directions of the compass. When the platform moved in any direction, the cherub facing that direction served as the driver. The other cherubim did not turn but remained facing their assigned direction.
Ezekiel 10:13 Or the whirling wheels or the spinning wheels
Ezekiel 10:14 In chapter 1 the corresponding face was called the face of an ox.
Ezekiel 10:19 The translation they is the reading of the Greek text. The Hebrew text reads the singular.
Ezekiel 11:1 Or wind
Ezekiel 11:3 The Hebrew sentence reads to build houses is not near. The context requires a confident assertion, but it is not clear what type of action this comment refers to. Some suggest that the rulers feel no need to build houses because they have expropriated the property of the people in exile and of other defenseless residents of the city. Others suggest that they were mocking Jeremiah’s letter and talking about building houses in Babylon.
Ezekiel 11:9 A variant supported by some Hebrew manuscripts is he.
Ezekiel 11:15 See Leviticus 25:24-52 for a description of this practice. A variant is your fellow exiles.

Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV)

Hebrews 6

Moving On Toward Maturity

6 Therefore, leaving the beginning discussion of Christ, let us press on toward matters that require greater maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith in God, ²of the teaching about baptisms,^[a] of the laying on of hands, of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. ³And we will do this, if God permits.

⁴For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift and shared in the Holy Spirit, ⁵who have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the coming age, ⁶and who then fell away, to be restored to repentance because^[b] they are crucifying the Son of God again, to their own harm, and exposing him to public ridicule.

⁷For the land that drinks the rain that often falls on it and produces plants useful to those farming it, this land receives a blessing from God. ⁸But the land that grows thorns and thistles is worthless and will soon be cursed—its end is to be burned.

⁹But even if we speak this way, we are confident of better things for you, dear friends, things belonging to salvation. ¹⁰For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love that you showed for his name’s sake, when you served the saints, and while you continue to serve them. ¹¹And we want each of you to continue to show the same eagerness, so that you may have the full assurance of your hope until the end. ¹²Our goal is that you would not become lazy but imitators of those who inherited the promise through faith and patient endurance.

God’s Promise Is Sure

¹³For God made a promise to Abraham, and since God had no one greater to swear by, “He swore by himself.”^[c] ¹⁴He said, “I will most certainly bless you and make you increase in number.”^[d] ¹⁵And so in this way, after Abraham had waited patiently, he received the promise.

¹⁶To be sure, people swear by someone who is greater, and the oath serves as a confirmation for them that ends all disputes. ¹⁷Because God wanted to show the heirs of the promise with even greater certainty that his plan was unchangeable, he guaranteed his promise with an oath. ¹⁸He did this so that, through two unchangeable things (in which it is impossible that God would lie), we, who have fled for refuge by taking hold of this hope that is held out to us, might have strong encouragement.

¹⁹We have this hope as an anchor for the soul. It is sure and firm, and it goes behind the inner curtain, ²⁰where Jesus entered ahead of us on our behalf, because he became a high priest forever like Melchizedek.

Footnotes:

Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV)

Psalm 105:16-36

The Lord Is Faithful in Egypt:
His Protection of Joseph

¹⁶Then he summoned a famine on the land.
He destroyed their entire food supply.
¹⁷He sent ahead of them a man sold as a slave, Joseph.
¹⁸They hurt his feet with chains.
His throat was clamped in an iron collar,
¹⁹until the time when his predictions came true.
The promise of the Lord tested him.
²⁰The king sent for him and released him.
The ruler of peoples set him free.
²¹He made him master of his house
and ruler over all his possessions,
²²to bind his officials by his will,
to teach his elders wisdom.

The Lord Is Faithful in Egypt:
His Protection of the People

²³Then Israel came to Egypt.
Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.^[a]
²⁴Then the Lord made his people very fruitful.
He made them too numerous for their foes.
²⁵He turned the Egyptians’ hearts so they hated his people.
They dealt deceitfully with his servants.
²⁶He sent Moses his servant,
and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
²⁷They performed his signs among them,
his warning signs in the land of Ham.
²⁸He sent darkness, and it became extremely dark,
because Israel^[b] did not rebel against his words.
²⁹He turned their waters into blood,
and he caused their fish to die.
³⁰Their land swarmed with frogs,
even in the rooms of their kings.
³¹He spoke, and a swarm of flies came.
There were lice^[c] throughout their borders.
³²He gave them hail instead of rain,
with blazing lightning throughout their land.
³³Then he struck down their vines and fig trees,
and he broke down the trees within their borders.
³⁴He spoke, and the locusts came,
and grasshoppers without number.
³⁵They ate every green plant in their land.
They ate the produce of their soil.
³⁶Then he struck down all the firstborn in their land,
the first fruit of all their virility.

Footnotes:

Psalm 105:23 The Egyptians were descendants of Noah’s son Ham (Genesis 10:6).
Psalm 105:28 The subject of the verb is supplied for clarity.
Psalm 105:31 The identity of the insects is uncertain. Lice was the traditional translation. Gnats, fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes are more recent suggestions. The requirement is that it be an insect that is on people and that is more than an annoyance.

Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV)

Proverbs 27:1-2

27 Do not boast about tomorrow,
because you do not know what a day may produce.
²Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth—
a stranger, not your own lips.

Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV)

November 3, 2020

11/03/DAB Transcript

Ezekiel 7:1-9:11, Hebrews 5:1-14, Psalms 105:1-15, Proverbs 26:28

Today is the 3^rd day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is a joy and an honor and everything good to be here with you today as we move into the Scriptures and take the next step forward together. And it’s so good that we can be together today in God’s word. So, let’s set let’s dive in. We’re reading from the Evangelical Heritage Version this week. Ezekiel chapters 7, 8, and 9 today.

Commentary:

Okay. The book of Proverbs today tells us that two things are not good things - a lying tongue and a smooth mouth. And, so, I suppose this is as good of a day as any to talk about what the Proverbs are talking about. And yeah, we…we can certainly look out…outward and see all this stuff but as is always the case once we identify it in the world what’s going on then, we need to turn it back inward to discover whether we’re part of the noise, whether we’re part of the problem, or if we’re part of the solution. So, a lying tongue hates the one it crushes. So, what is a lying tongue? I mean, we could probably say that’s sort of self-evident. It's…it’s the tongue that doesn’t speak what is true. But there are so many nuances to the way that we lie to each other aren’t there? Like we sort of think that we’re telling the truth as long as we have some sort of morsel of truth in the thing that we are fabricating but we have a…we are like being deceptive. So, if we’re willing to embellish and puff up or the opposite, to diminish or crush down the truth, the actual truth, in order to manipulate somebody or in order to hide behind something and try to protect ourself from exposure then we’re not only gonna be crushing people, we’re gonna be doing it with hatred. That is a massive, massive thing to realize. If we’re gonna flatter, if we’re gonna manipulate, if we’re gonna nuance the things that we’re gonna say and they aren’t really what we mean in order to kinda like get close to somebody or get into somebody’s life because they have something that we want or they have something that we need, that we think that we need, we need to get close to them, then it’s going to cause a ruin everywhere ultimately because it’s foundation is false. It’s a lie. It’s gonna crush. And there’s something in me that’s saying stop. Like don’t keep trying to reexplain this with…with other metaphors or analogies. Like this is enough. Its stark. A lying tongue hates those it crushes and a smooth mouth causes ruin. So, if that’s you, then this is where the road is going. If that’s not you, then this is what to avoid because it brings destruction.

Prayer:

Father, we come before You on this and it rings true and it’s convicting, and it does penetrate. It makes us reflect. It makes us consider but the deeper that we consider the more we realize that our entire culture is based on this kind of sidestepping. We are a world of people so afraid of being exposed the truth of who we are that we do everything possible to nuance and to hide when we are all guilty. Like, were any of us, anybody to be fully exposed then we would be fearful of the judgment that would come against us, but we are all in the same boat. It would happen to anybody. And You have invited us into the light. You have essentially said, “that’s the world. That’s how it works. It’s a system built in falseness and held captive by the author of deception and lies.” You have invited us to be free, to walk into the light, to be in the truth. And no matter what that may bring, to know that we don’t have a divided heart or a divided mind. We don’t always have to figure out which personality we have to put on depending on what circumstances we’re in. We just get to be who You made. This is freedom indeed, but it flies in the face of the structures of the world that we live in. And, so, living like this…well…it would indeed be living like You lived Jesus. It would look like You. And we can see the raging of the world against You. And, so, we scratch our heads because it doesn’t make sense because freedom is available, but the system is so rigged against freedom that we find ourselves just trying to find ways to cope and manage when You are offering freedom, that we can live in the light, that we can live in the truth. So, come Holy Spirit and help us over these coming days as we meditate upon this, as we catch ourselves being false or as we become more and more aware of the falseness around us, as we begin to see it. We need Your help to navigate it. There’s no way we’ll be able to figure this out. So, come Holy Spirit we open ourselves to You, well up within. Lead and guide our steps, the thoughts and intents of our hearts. We pray in the mighty name, the victorious name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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Kind of have to be under a rock to not know that today is election day in the United States. Probably no matter where you are in the world. And, yeah, we’ve been on the radar kind of all year, with all kinds of stuff and Covid hasn’t helped and there’s just a lot of swirl going on. And I make it a very, very specific, very intentional point to do what we do here, to take the rhythm of the Scriptures and let it be a part of our lives every day. And I feel like the Scriptures In our lives can comment on what’s going on in our world better than me being some…just another noisemaker. So, I would like to give as simple, as trivial, as obvious of advice as I can give you. Maybe you’re one of the people who have already voted. Great. Awesome. If you’re going to the polls today, pray, listen, obey and then walk away in peace. There’s nothing else to do here. I mean I’ve lived long enough that I’ve been through several elections and even from my youth I cannot think of an election where the rhetoric hasn’t amped up to the point where we are led to believe that what we are about to do is the most pivotal thing we have ever done in the nation’s history, maybe in the history of all humanity. That's…that’s not true. The most important thing we have ever done is to become a part of the family of God. We are a part of a kingdom that is upon this earth that spans and crosses every single border. This is our allegiance - the kingdom of God. And God will not be toppled my brothers and sisters over this or anything else. And, you know how this goes. This ends at some point and somebody is…is the winner and that’s gonna leave about half the people bumbed and about half the people rejoicing. And we can all do what people do these days - get on the Internet and just start making noise, start sending out memes. Take all of the divisiveness that has been amped up this entire year and really live into it, like really live into it and make this country an “us versus them” understanding that we are making the body of Christ, then divided in “us versus them” because so many of us are believers who are completely and totally opposite in their political convictions. So, the last thing that I have to say isn’t my opinion, isn’t anything to do with me other than it’s my voice reminding you. We have a Savior. His name is Jesus. He loved us when we were still His enemy. He loved us as a people despite our animosity and he laid his life down that we might live. And just mere hours before He did that, He was sitting with his friends having his last meal. And at that last meal He said something that must reverberate through everything about our lives, including all of what happens today. He said a new commandment I give to you, that you love one another as I have loved you. So, friends it gets pretty simple then. When you pray and listen and obey and walk away in peace and love one another as we have been loved as we come out of this, the most divisive of all seasons that we experience as a nation every four years. If there…if there ever were a time to be a city on a hill, to be the salt of the earth, to be light in the darkness, to be the hands and feet of Jesus to love one another as we have been loved, well it that would be coming out of this wouldn’t it. And, so, let’s walk through this day at peace loving one another as we have been loved.

And that’s it for today, I’m Brian I love you and I’ll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

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Hi everyone, this is Lisa the Encourager. I’m calling tonight to pray for our elderly parents or just our parents in general. I’ve certainly called in for our children many times, but I definitely want to focus on our parents today. I know Howard called in about his mom being in rehab and how difficult that was and how she looked very weak. And I just want to pray for him and his mom. And I have a similar situation with my dad going through that. So, I can empathize with your situation Howard. And also, Charlie called in about his parents and them being diagnosed with Covid. So, I want to also pray for his parents and anyone else out there that is going through a difficult time with their parent’s health and how stressful that can be and making a lot of hard decisions. And I’m just gonna pray that God is gonna guide us through those things and that they will be as peaceful and as comfortable as possible. So, let’s go to the Lord in prayer about all of our parents. And also, I wanted also to just say, I respectfully admire Brian for what he went through with his mom and continued to be a ministry to all of us. So, I just thank you again Brian for that because I know that had to be a hard time when you lost your mom. Dear God, I thank you so much for Pastor Brian and what he means to all of us and also thank you God for these…all of our parents Lord that are getting older in life. And I just pray God that your hand will be upon them, that they can recover, and you can comfort them where they need your comfort…

Hey DAB family this is Danny from Southern Oregon I wonder if you could please pray for my 15-year-old grandson Christopher and his friends. The other day these four friends skipped school and they were heading to one of the boy’s houses. And Christopher’s not allowed there. And anyway, shortly after he left school the school called my son and his mom, and they immediately began looking for him and texting him and calling him. And it appears that Christopher got a little bit worried that he was and I get into trouble so when he was about two blocks from this boy’s house he ended up going home to his mom’s and that was about 11 o’clock in the morning. And at 1230 the police were dispatched to a fatality. One of the…my grandsons’ best friends accidentally shot and killed one of the other boys and the third boy was standing right next to him and I’m sure is suffering a lot of PTSD from what he witnessed. And I know…I’m so thankful my grandson was not there but he’s so upset that he’s lost his best friend and they ended up arresting the boy for murder because some things just didn’t add up. And so please…please pray for Tony. He was the one standing next to him and ended up just covered head to toe in brain matter. It was point-blank. And…and pray for Dustin who’s been arrested for murder, that the truth come out and maybe they would all come to know the Lord through this. Thank you.

This is Kathy from Kentucky. I have a different kind of prayer request. I’m gonna take a test in martial arts specifically, Shaolin in two weeks. If I pass, I’ll be a 2^nddegree brown belt and well on my way to black belt. When I was a girl growing up, I was not allowed to play team sports __ passed after I got out of high school. And I would’ve been good at some kind of sport. I trained on the swim team the summer before I graduated from high school and then after that I was too old. So, it’s important to me to be able to do something at my age, 67. So, please pray for my martial arts test Shaolin on the second Saturday of November the 14^th.

Hi this is Julie from California I just started listening to the Daily Audio Bible about a week and a half ago. It was recommended through another podcast that I listen to and it has been up total and complete godsend. The last three years or so have been just really horrible. My marriage was almost at its end. My father-in-law passed away. We sold everything and moved out of state to take care of my mother-in-law at a very remote place where I had no support and found out she had Alzheimer’s and ended up staying for 2 ½ years when our plan was to stay a year. And then my dad passed away while we were gone, and my mom was diagnosed with leukemia. She’s in remission and doing phenomenally well praise God, but also there were issues with my son and now he no longer talks to us and I lost my job and we filed bankruptcy. Like, just thing piled on after thing piled on after thing and really kind of wrecked my relationship with God for a long time because I really couldn’t read my Bible, I couldn’t focus, I couldn’t do journaling. I mean I was on…I was on a regular track of reading the Bible in the year every year for like three or four years and then I just stopped. And this is miraculous because I actually am feeling like I’m getting the word in me and feeling more joy and I just am really thankful for you guys and I would just appreciate prayers where…where you feel like praying for me and a…a word. I’m happy to hear a word if you have a word for me because I need God so much right now. Thank you. God bless.

Hi family this is Peggy in California. And I, like so many of you, just absolutely love this community and appreciate it so much. It’s a place to share our deepest hurts and our joys and it’s just wonderful and I thank you all for participating and making it what it is. I’m calling today like many others who have called for my adult children. In particular one of my sons, he’s a twin, actually. I got a call from his twin yesterday telling me that his brother’s not doing well, he’s very depressed and seems to be disinterested in…in life, in not moving forward. Recently had a breakup with a girlfriend that I think what’s…he’s exhibiting is actually something that started before that. So, of course, I’m heartbroken and I worry about him. And he was raised in the church, but he doesn’t seem to have a very strong connection if any. So, I just pray that would lift Mason up in your prayers. And I thank you for doing that for me. Have a good day.

Ezekiel 18-19

Everyone Will Suffer for His Own Sins

Funeral Songs for Israel’s Princes

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Hebrews 9:1-10

Christ Offered a Superior Sacrifice

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Psalm 106:32-48

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Proverbs 27:10

Ezekiel 16:42-17:24

The Parable About the Cedar Sprig

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Hebrews 8

A Better Promise

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Psalm 106:13-31

Rebellions in the Wilderness

God’s Grace

More Rebellions in the Wilderness

Proverbs 27:7-9

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Ezekiel 14:12-16:41

Four Judgments

Jerusalem Is a Useless Vine

Jerusalem, the Prostitute[b]

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Hebrews 7:18-28

Jesus Is the High Priest We Need

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Psalm 106:1-12

Psalm 106

Israel Forgets

Introduction

Rebellion in Egypt

God’s Grace

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Proverbs 27:4-6

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Ezekiel 12:1-14:11

An Action Prophecy About the Prince’s Exile

Two Sayings About Prophecy

False Prophets and Prophetesses

Rulings About Prophecy

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Hebrews 7:1-17

A Priest Forever

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Psalm 105:37-45

The Lord Is Faithful in the Wilderness

The Lord Is Faithful in the Land

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Proverbs 27:3

Ezekiel 10-11

The Glory Is Seen Again

Warning of Judgment

Promise of One Heart and a New Spirit

The Glory Departs

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Hebrews 6

Moving On Toward Maturity

God’s Promise Is Sure

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Psalm 105:16-36

The Lord Is Faithful in Egypt:His Protection of Joseph

The Lord Is Faithful in Egypt:His Protection of the People

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Proverbs 27:1-2

Jerusalem, the Prostitute^[b]

The Lord Is Faithful in Egypt:
His Protection of Joseph

The Lord Is Faithful in Egypt:
His Protection of the People