Nov 25, 2022
NEHEMIAH 8-9:
Nehemiah 7 dealt with listing the various
families and temple workers who came back after exile. The last
verse in that chapter is the transition to the next events. It is
so much of a transition that NLT has verse 73 end with an
incomplete sentence. (NLT: In October when the Israelites had
settled in their towns,) Here is that transition verse in the
GNT:
7:73 GNT The priests, the Levites, the Temple guards, the musicians, many of the ordinary people, the Temple workers—all the people of Israel—settled in the towns and cities of Judah.
ISAIAH 38:
In
chapter 37 yesterday, we heard of Hezekiah’s triumph through his
prayer. As we have seen before in Isaiah (and not just in Isaiah’s
message to the king), this defeat was prophesied, and we heard the
fulfillment yesterday.
COLOSSIANS 2:
After that wonderful poem in Colossians chapter
1— which I can barely resist reading to you a second time, Paul
says these things:
Col.
1:21 GNT At one time you were far away from God and were his
enemies because of the evil things you did and thought.
22 But now, by means of the physical death of
his Son, God has made you his friends, in order to bring you, holy,
pure, and faultless, into his presence.
Then in talking about the revelation of the Good News, he says,
1:26
NLT This message was kept secret for centuries and generations
past, but now it has been revealed to God’s
people.
27
For God wanted them to know that the riches and glory of Christ are
for you Gentiles, too. And this is the secret: Christ lives in you.
This gives you assurance of sharing his glory.
GNT Translation
notes:
Neh. 8:9 When the
people heard what the Law required, they were so moved that they
began to cry. So [I,] Nehemiah, [0//who was] the governor, Ezra,
the priest and scholar of the Law, and the Levites who were
explaining the Law told all the people, “This day is holy to the
Lord your God, so you are not to mourn or
cry.
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Col.2:7 Keep your roots deep in him, build your
lives on him, and [keep on becoming//become] stronger in your
[belief in in Jesus//faith], as you were taught. And be filled with
thanksgiving.
12 For when
you were baptized, you were buried with Christ, and in baptism you
were also raised with Christ through your [belief//faith] in the
active power of God, who raised him from
death.
21 “Don't handle
this,” “Don't taste that,” “Don't touch [that other thing//the
other]”?