October - Reading 15

Good afternoon -

Our Scriptures for today's schedule are:

John 5:1-15

1 Peter 1:17-25

Ecclesiastes 12

Jeremiah 39-43

May God bless you as you read from His Word.

 

In our reading for the 15th, Jeremiah gives an extremely detailed account of the fall of Jerusalem. In fact, this is cited as the most detailed account in the Bible of this event. The weeping prophet's prophecies are now realized by some, but even at this point some groups such as Johanan and Jezaniah in chapter 42 refuse to hear the truth spoken by Jeremiah. Even though he had correctly foretold of the capture of Jerusalem after the 2 1/2 year seige, the capture of the king, and the march of the remnant into exile, people still wanted to only hear good news.
These accounts are chronologically the last writings in Jeremiah with the exception of verses 52:31-34 which are considered an appendix to the Book.

Chapter 5 of John begins with the account of the Healing at the Pool. This Miracle of healing is somewhat unique in that no faith is displayed by the crippled(?) man. This shows us that Christ is not limited to healing only those who have faith. As we will read in the schedule of the 16th, Christ forgives whomever He pleases. The other important lesson in our reading of the Healing at the Pool is that Christ later warns the man to repent or "worse" would happen to him. This is generally accepted as eternal damnation for the unrepentant sinner.

In 1Peter their is much to study upon. One thing that should be noted is that verse 20 shows that God always had a plan for salvation for mankind, even before the creation of the earth. Also, we use the term "holy" so often, but a definition should be in order to understand this passage.

May God bless you

- Clint

[ October 16, 2002, 09:47 AM: Message edited by: Clint Kritzer ]

 

Hi Mark -

I assume that you are referring to verse 16.

The wording of such, "was doing," indicates that this was an ongoing process. Therefore we can conjecture that there was more than just this single incident. It is also noteworthy that the it is not mentioned what form the "persecution" took.

His association with John the Baptist was probably frowned on quite heavily, but at that time Christ may have been more ambiguous, a face in a crowd.

2:18 shows that problems were beginning to manifest after the cleansing of the Temple.

Also, we see in chapter 3 that Nicodemus had to come to Christ "at night," implying that he was having to do it in secret. This indicates to me that there was already some discord between Christ's ministry and the Jewish leaders.

This is only conjecture, however, and this is the first mention of any direct conflict with the Jews mentioned in John. This Gospel is a bit tricky when trying to establish a timeline in Christ's ministry. The timing of events seem to be a bit scrambled when compared to the synoptic Gospels, though none of them seem to be extremely rigid on chronology.

 

Our Scriptures for 10/16 are:

John 5:16-30

1 Peter 2:1-8

Song of Solomon 1

Jeremiah 44-46

 

Our Scriptures for 10/16 are:

John 5:16-30

1 Peter 2:1-8

Song of Solomon 1

Jeremiah 44-46

 

Our Scriptures for 10/16 are:

John 5:16-30

1 Peter 2:1-8

Song of Solomon 1

Jeremiah 44-46

 

Our Scriptures for 10/16 are:

John 5:16-30

1 Peter 2:1-8

Song of Solomon 1

Jeremiah 44-46

 

Our Scriptures for 10/16 are:

John 5:16-30

1 Peter 2:1-8

Song of Solomon 1

Jeremiah 44-46