Friday, October 22, 2010

The fiftieth post!

50th Post!!!  Congrats for tracking with me so far!  Let's hope it can only get better from here.

Key verses
Jeremiah 23:23-24 - “Am I only a God nearby,” declares the Lord, “and not a God far away?  Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?” declares the Lord.  “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah
Beware the false prophets!

Ecclesiastes
7:28 really stuck out to me because apparently Solomon couldn't find one upright women among any.  I think this may stem from the fact that he married all foreign women who would not have followed his religion or believed in the one true God.  This makes sense because he had 300 wives and 700 concubines, thereby equaling 1000.
I read this from the Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary and thought it was an interesting take, although a little bit of a stretch:  one man-that is, worthy of the name, "man," "upright"; not more than one in a thousand of my courtiers (Job 33:23; Ps 12:1). Jesus Christ alone of men fully realizes the perfect ideal of "man." "Chiefest among ten thousand" (So 5:10). No perfect "woman" has ever existed, not even the Virgin Mary. Solomon, in the word "thousand," alludes to his three hundred wives and seven hundred concubines. Among these it was not likely that he should find the fidelity which one true wife pays to one husband.

James
If you were thinking of hoarding wealth, James 5:1-6 should make you think again!  Don't store up your treasures where moth and rust can destroy, or thieves can break in and steal.

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