Introduction of John the Baptist and the baptism of Jesus.
Includes discussion about the length of the podcast. I am trying so hard to be brief that the episodes actually need to be a little longer?
Matthew 3
In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
Continue readingRead the Bible is now available as a podcast on Spotify. There will be other platforms soon; I don’t have a crew of techies to create accounts and paste RSS feeds all day, it’s just me. The image here is the title card shown on Spotify. It needed to be square and I was a little concerned about downloading an image that might someday be cited for violating copyright. So this is a picture that I took myself, of my Bible.
Matthew 2
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, wise men came from the east to Jerusalem,
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3/4 of the Bible is the Old Testament. There is nothing I can do about that but we are going to break it up by switching back and forth. We will spend pretty much the entire month of June reading Matthew’s Gospel before getting back into the Old Testament at… Leviticus. Matthew tells Joseph’s side of the story of Jesus’s birth and has wise men. We will get to Luke’s account before Christmas which features Mary and the angels appearing to shepherds.
Matthew 1
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
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We finished reading Exodus yesterday. We read one chapter per day of Genesis (50 chapters) and immediately started Exodus (40 chapters) and did the same thing. It has been three months since the first Read the Bible post. We are going to take a break from the Old Testament and begin The Gospel According to Matthew tomorrow. We’re gonna go ahead and give you a new open Bible and cup of coffee image for the occasion.
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With the completion of the priestly garments, everything God commanded Moses to build has been finished. In chapter 40 they will put the tabernacle up and place everything where it goes and we will be finished reading the book of Exodus.
Exodus 39
From the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made garments to do service in the Holy Place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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Have you ever started a new year with the goal of reading the Bible straight through, Genesis to Revelation, and finish by December 31st? I know people that do, my dad was one of them. In addition to preaching and studying texts for teaching Sunday School, he made it a point to read straight through each year and did that like 30 times. We should read the Bible and that’s one way to do it. But many people have tried and failed and sometimes instead of trying something else they just quit.
Continue readingIn this chapter, Bezaleel makes the bronze altar for burnt offerings and the poles and curtains for the courtyard of the tabernacle. And we get some math, the calculations for how much gold, silver and bronze was used. It’s mind boggling.
Exodus 38
He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood: the length of it was five cubits, and the width five cubits; it was square and three cubits was the height.
Continue readingIn Exodus 25, Moses is given the instructions for making the ark of testimony as well as the table and lampstand that will be in the Holy Place. In this chapter those things are put together and the details of materials and measurements are repeated.
Exodus 37
Bezaleel made the ark of acacia wood: two and a half cubits was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the width of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:
Continue readingIf you go back to Exodus 26 you will find the instructions God gave Moses to build the tabernacle. There are measurements and materials for curtains, boards, sockets, coverings and so forth. In this chapter Bezaleel and Aholiab are following those instructions. The reading looks very similar but in this case they are doing all the things God described before.
Exodus 36
“Then Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man in whom the Lord put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, shall do according to all that the LORD has commanded.”
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The Master's Table 