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December
29
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Yesterday --- Contribute --- Tomorrow
Reading 1 - Job 39
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Peter Cresswell
Yahweh
continues to question Job about his ignorance of His ways.
Peter
Forbes
Reading 2 - Malachi 1
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Peter Cresswell
1:2
I loved Jacob and I hated Esau Romans 9:13
1.11
From the rising of the sun ... of the same Psalm 50:1
Similarities
with the time of Ezra / Nehemiah
1:8
governor 6346 Haggai
1:1, Ezra 8:36, Nehemiah 2:7, Esther 3:12
The
message was directed against the priest. 1:6
2:1 because they were ignorant of the ways in which they were short
changing their God. This can be seen in the way that they seems surprised
at the message of the prophet in the following passages where their response
is 'where are we failing?' Malachi
1:2,6,7 2:14,17 3:7,8
Peter
Forbes
Reading 3 - Revelation 17 & 18
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Peter Cresswell
17:1 Why do you think that the angel saw the need to show John the judgment of the 'great whore'?
Actually this is simply a continuation of the way that God does nothing without telling his servants. He views His servants as His friends and as such tells them things they do not need to know 1 Kings 21:29. Also he tells His servants about the future Amos 3:7.
ch.18 - This extensive list of quotations from the Old Testament
18:2
Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen Isaiah 21:9
18:2
and is become the habitation of Jeremiah 51:37
18:3
nations have drunk of the wine Jeremiah 51:7
18:3
the kings of the earth have committed fornication Isaiah 23:17
18:4
come out of her, my people Jeremiah 51:45
18:5
for her ... have reached ... heaven Jeremiah 51:9
18:6
reward her even as she has reward you Jeremiah 50:29
18:8
shall her ... come in one day Isaiah 47:9
18:9
shall bewail her, and lament for her Ezekiel 27:31
18:10
that mighty city Ezekiel 26:17
18:11
and the merchants Ezekiel 27:36
18:12
the merchandise Ezekiel 27:24
18:12
silver Ezekiel 27:12
18:12
precious stones Ezekiel 27:22
18:12
fine linen, and purple Ezekiel 27:16
18:12
thyine wood Ezekiel 27:17
18:12
all manner Ezekiel 27:18
18:12
ivory Ezekiel 27:15
18:12
vessels ... and of brass Ezekiel 27:13
18:12
and iron Ezekiel 27:12
18:13
and wine Ezekiel 27:18
18:13
oil ... and wheat Ezekiel 27:17
18:13
and sheep Ezekiel 27:21
18:13
horses Ezekiel 27:14
18:13
and souls of men Ezekiel 27:13
18:15
The merchants Ezekiel 27:36
18:15
made rich by ... fear Ezekiel 27:33
18:16
linen, and purple ... scarlet ... gold Ezekiel 27:29
18:16
precious stones Ezekiel 28:13
18:17
And every shipmaster ... all the company in Ezekiel 27:29
18:17
trade Ezekiel 27:27
18:17
sea, stood Ezekiel 27:29
18:18
What city is like unto ....? Ezekiel 27:32
18:19
And they cast dust on their heads Ezekiel 27:30
18:21
and cast ... saying,, Thus ... Babylon Jeremiah 51:63-64
18:22
the voice ... and musicians ... shall be heard Ezekiel 26:13 Jeremiah
25:10
18:23
and the voice of the bridegroom, and the bride Jeremiah 25:10
18:23
shall be heard no more Ezekiel 26:13
18:23
for thy merchants were the great men of the earth Isaiah 23:8
18:24
all that were slain upon the earth Jeremiah 51:49
Shows
how that the Babylon of this chapter draws on language which speaks of
both Babylon and Tyre.
Peter Forbes