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June 13 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Today our reading will cover 2 Kings Chapters 21:18-26, 22:1-2, and Chapter 23:25-27, Nahum Chapters 2:1-10 and 3:2-7, 19, and Zephaniah Chapters 1:1-9 and 2:3-10. We will read about King Manasseh's son becoming the next king of Judah who did not follow God and quickly being replaced by HIS son, Josiah, who followed God with all his heart, soul, and might, the way that Moses taught. We will read about God's plans for judgment on the city of Nineveh and the land of Moab because of their pride, practice of witchcraft, and the way way Moab spoke bad things about God's people and made fun of God's people. In our discussion for daily application we will talk about the importance of learning from the mistakes we see Judah and the other nations making, specifically not having a heart for God and making the right choice to be good examples of Jesus' love, being sure to speak well of and love God's people, our Jewish brethren, whether they are believers in Messiah or not. We will talk about how God brings timely opportunities into our lives to practice the daily applications that we are learning about, since it is impossible to learn how to do the right things in life simply by reading about them or hearing about them. We must practice how to behave in real life! As we are presented with real life opportunities to practice what God is teaching us here in this daily Bible reading event, I pray that the Holy Spirit, who teaches us all things, will remind us of these readings and that Jesus will help us to be strong in our obedience to live out the lessons we are learning today.
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Introduction to Daily Bible Reading
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Welcome everybody! Today is June 13th and you are here with Robin at In The Family Way Coaching. I know why you're here. It's for our daily Bible reading as we go through the Day by Day Kids Bible written by Karen Henley.
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I am so glad that you are here with me today watching or listening along as we go through the Bible this year and I hope that you are enjoying our big overview story of everything that's happening in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.
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If you are following along on that commitment calendar, it's time to get that out and your sticker or however you're marking it off because you're about to hear the Bible today.
Judah's Captivity and Prophecies
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We are almost halfway through this month. I don't even know where this month went. We just had Shavuot like last week and it's it's just, the week is just flying. i don't know, the month.
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So today we are going to be picking up in the book of, let's see, we have a lot of books today actually. We're going to be finishing the book of Nahum, which is only three chapters long. So today we will read chapters two and three.
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And then we will pick up with um
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the kingdom of Judah. And then we will hear from the prophet Zephaniah. who is going to be ah prophesying about God bringing judgment.
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So we are going to be reading a lot in the coming weeks. We will be finishing the Old Testament and starting the new covenant on like August 10th.
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So this is June 13th. So we have about two more months, the month of June, in the month of July and then into August 10th. So we will have two months of reading in the Old Testament where we are going to be seeing a lot of the prophecies because then there is what we call the intertestamental period where God did not have any writings until Jesus came.
Israel's Disobedience and God's Judgment
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So there is a great deal at this time where we're going to be hearing a lot about the judgments because as we've been seeing the people of Israel are now taken captive into other lands and we're going to be seeing the same thing for Judah.
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So as so we have perspective as to what it is we're reading and why there just seems to be so much gloom and doom. It's because what we're seeing is overall the people are not choosing to have a heart for God.
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Overall, the people are very easily influenced into the world's worshiping practices. And God is not very happy about that because he called his Israelite people, the family of Jacob with the 12 tribes, to be his separate people. that we were so They were supposed to be a ah nation of priests.
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They were supposed to be a ah example of light in the world. And they are not being this light in the world. They are being part of the world. So although we are seeing some ah kings here and there who are following God with their whole heart and are helping to lead the people to be doing right, overall, the people as a whole are not choosing to follow God.
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And so this is a pervasive issue that we've been seeing getting worse and worse. And it doesn't take much. you They basically have to have everything removed in order for them to obey.
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So they had these options available. And we see the same things as happening in our world, where, for instance, we don't have a president per se who uh, is godly and leads the United States or wherever country you're listening from.
Meditating on God's Commands
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You don't have a president but who is leading us in God's ways because we have a lot of what we call separation of church and state these days.
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And Israel was to be a nation that was to be set apart for God. And so they were meant to be different when we were doing the prayers for, ah that they're the blessing rather for,
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um the the Feast of Weeks, as we were counting up the days to Shavuot, We began each day with the blessing from God that we are set apart by God's commandments and commanded to do the counting of the Yomer, for instance.
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But Israel was set apart by God and commanded to be a nation of priests. So although they had the priestly line where they had specific jobs, everybody was still supposed to be having a heart for God like a priest.
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In following after God's commands, we were taught to meditate on them day and night, to think about them all the time as we get up, as we walk along the roads, as we go to bed, as we're working.
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Because by doing so, we keep God's word ever upon our heart and upon our mind so that we are thinking about why we are meant to do these right things and then we make good choices.
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So we are learning from these examples and seeing a lot of people who are not doing this. And so God is sending out a lot of warnings as to what is going to be happening.
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And the New Testament teaches us that God is not slow in his judgment. So it might seem like this is just really dragging out. But God is giving opportunity for the people to hear the message.
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and turn from their ways. And yet what we will be seeing is that they do not. Their eyes are closed, their ears are closed. They cannot hear, they cannot see.
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And so they do not obey.
Nahum's Prophecy and Nineveh's Fall
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And we are going to be reading every day more and more about this as God's people are taken away and then they will be eventually brought back for a time and then they will be taken away again.
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And God is assuring the people that although these times of being taken away are meant for discipline, he is reassuring them through these writings that we will be reading.
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that he will be bringing them back. it is not a permanent displacement. they There is promise in these readings that God will be bringing them back.
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So what you'll notice over as we are reading is that it's not simply judgment, but it is promise of deliverance. And so let's keep that in mind as we read today's reading.
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And we will get started today with the book of Nahum, which is talking about Nineveh. For Nineveh, there will be no ah oh, I just lost the word.
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um There will be no return. they There is nothing good found in them. In Nineveh, they were practicing a lot of witchcraft, which is what we read a few weeks ago, or maybe it was only a week ago. The time is so fast these days.
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So God was pronouncing judgment on Nineveh because there was a great deal of sorcery and witchcraft and relying upon their magic to get them by.
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And they were constantly doing ah bad things. Now, Nineveh is part of Assyria. So while on one hand we see that Assyria is allowed to take Judah captive, they are very ah harsh. They are very barbaric.
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They're very cruel when they do so. They go too far. And so we will be hearing that from Nahum today.
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Nahum chapter 2.
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And since these books are ah giving us the big picture, it doesn't include everything from those chapters. from those chapters But ah for instance, today Nahum chapter two brings us verses one through 10.
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And then in Nahum chapter three, it will cover verses two through seven and 19. The first section is entitled, The Work of the Fighting Men.
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Someone will come to fight you, Nineveh. Guard your forts, watch your roads, get ready, get as strong as you can be. God will make his people great again.
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The fighting men have red shields. They are dressed in red. The metal chariots shine when they are ready to go. The men on horses rush around.
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The chariots race through the streets. They rush back and forth. They look like fire on sticks. They zip around like lightning.
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The leader calls the army men he chose, but they trip as they go. They hurry to the city wall. They put up their shields. They open the dams on the river and the palace falls down.
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The people will be taken away. The slave
Leadership Transition in Judah and Zephaniah's Prophecy
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girls cry like doves. They pound their chests. Nineveh looks like a pool and its water flows away.
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Stop, the people cry. But nobody comes back. Take the silver, take the gold. There are storerooms full of riches.
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The city is cleaned out. Hearts melt, knees bend and fall. People shake and faces lose their color.
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The Nation That Made Slaves, chapter three. Whips crack. Wheels make noise on the streets. Horses run and chariots bump by.
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Men on horses rush by with shiny swords. Lots of people get hurt and die. And it's all because this nation made other people their slaves.
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This nation followed witches. I am against you, says God. I'll show the nations that you are not good for anything.
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Everybody who sees you will run away and they will say that Nineveh is torn down. Everybody who hears about it will clap. That's because everyone knows how mean you are.
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Now we're going to pick up with Judah in 2 Kings chapters 21 and 22. and twenty two And this is entitled, A Grave in the Palace Garden.
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Now Judah's king Manasseh died, and his grave was in the garden of the palace. His son, Ammon, became the next king of Judah. Ammon was a bad king.
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He worshiped idols. He never did turn to God. The leaders killed him in his palace and his grave was in the garden too.
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Ammon's son, Josiah, became Judah's next king. And Josiah was only eight years old. And Josiah was a good king. He did what was right.
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He followed God with all his heart and soul and might. That's the way Moses had said to follow God. But God was still angry at the land of Judah, and that's because of the bad things Manasseh had done.
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God said, I will turn away from Jerusalem.
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The Book of Zephaniah, Chapter 1, Verses 1-9, The Great Day of God God spoke to Zephaniah while Josiah was Judah's king.
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"'I'll sweep everything off the earth,' says God. "'I'll sweep away people and animals. I'll sweep birds from the air. I'll sweep fish from the sea.
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And there will only be piles of trash left.'" That's all sinful people will have, says God. I'll hold my hand out against Judah and I'll get rid of every last bit of the idols.
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I will get rid of people who bow down on their roofs to worship the stars. They worship the stars and they don't worship me, said God.
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They do not look for me. They don't ask me what to do. Be quiet in front of me. My day is coming soon, and I will bring trouble to people for what they did.
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Zephaniah chapter 2, verses 3 through 10.
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A proud land. Look for God, you people who know he is great. Look for God, you people who obey him. Try to do what's right and show that you are not greater than others.
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Maybe you will stay safe when God shows his anger.
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I have heard the ugly way the people of Moab talk. I've heard how they make fun of my people. So Moab will be like Sodom and it will be a place where weeds grow.
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Salt pits will be there and it will be a desert forever. My people who are still left will take Moab's riches. They'll get to have Moab's land.
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that's because That's what Moab gets because its people were proud. They said bad things about my people, said God. They made fun of my people.
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And that's the end of our reading today.
Rejecting Anti-Semitism and Embracing Unity
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So we have a couple of things we want to highlight today. One of the things that we want to look at for our daily application is look at the reason why God was against Moab.
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Moab was proud. And more than once today, we've heard that we are to show that we are not greater than others, which means don't think that we're above other people, not to think that we're better than other people.
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But not only that, but notice how a lot of God's judgment at times for other countries, both Nineveh and Moab, is that they say bad things about God's people.
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Who are God's people? That's right, the Israelites, people of Judah and Israel. They made fun of my people. In today's world, we are having a lot of what we call anti-Semitic or anti-Jewish behavior.
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People are um protesting and complaining about God's people. There is ah frequently talk about, ah you know, jokes or just people making fun of Jewish people.
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And it's not something that we as believers should be participating in. Instead, we need to remember the mistakes made in the past and learn so that we can apply them to our future today.
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God does not look favorably upon those who talk ah down about his people. We are meant to love our Jewish brethren, and we are meant to try to witness to them about what we read in our shared Old Covenant about the prophecies that God has made about our Messiah.
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And we need to show unity and strength with them. We need to back them up. Instead of, ah there's a lot of talk on the universities where people are afraid and there's a lot of hate crimes going on, what we call hate crimes, where the Jewish people are targeted, where sometimes the when people are known to be Jewish, they are targeted and it's not okay. There is a great trend toward this.
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And this is our enemy trying to cause division in our body. Remember, they are still part of our body. We are all grafted into the same tree.
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And right now, those especially, whether they are Jewish believers or Jewish non-believers, we need to be especially mindful of standing with them. We need to be unified with them.
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Even our Jewish brothers who are not yet believers. It's very important that we show love and that we are not making fun of them and that we are not ah speaking poorly about them.
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We see here as well that Nineveh was very bad. and says that they were very mean And so we don't want to be behaving in the way that we see these nations behaving.
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It goes beyond ah having a heart for God, but we need to make sure that while we are supposedly having a heart for God, that we are not bad-mouthing our Jewish brethren.
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We see that God does not look favorably upon that. And what we have read in our studies here this year is that God delights in us knowing him. So let's know him and see that he has a love for his Jewish people.
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They are still the apple of his eye. We are grafted in as Gentile believers, but our root, as we read the other day in, I think it was either Romans or Hebrews, is that although we have been grafted in,
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We are not the root of the tree. We are simply branches that are grafted in. And so we are not better than them. And we read today that we are not to behave as though we are better than other people.
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So we are not to behave as though we are better than our Jewish brethren, whether or not they are believers yet. They are still the root of the tree. They are whom God planted.
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And although at this stage in the Bible, we are reading that they are not having a heart for him, we see consistently that that does not change God's love for them.
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God loves them just as much today as he did the day that he called Abram to be the father of many nations and told him that through him, the end entire world would be blessed.
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So we need to be mindful of that in our day. And if we see or hear other people speaking poorly about our Jewish brethren, let's be strong and stand up for our Jewish brethren, believers or non-believers.
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And let's make sure that we are not exhibiting hate in a world that wants to hate our Jewish brethren.
00:19:45
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So I hope that you feel that God has lit your light today and has given you something to think about. Every day we are to meditate on God's word and talk about it and think about it as we go along in our day, as we discussed and mentioned earlier in our reading.
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And this is no different. So as we as God gives us circumstances in our life to practice what we are reading, I pray that we are strong in him and that we are mindful of the lessons that he is showing us for our daily application, because God has a very uncanny way of bringing our daily lessons into our everyday life.
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Things that we read about will suddenly have application in our life. We will come across these things. Why? Because God is using these times for us to practice what he is teaching us.
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These things are great to read about, but we don't learn how to do things simply by reading about them. We have to do them. It is only through doing them and experiencing these things that we actually learn them inside our hearts So I am very confident that God is going to bring circumstances into each one of our lives.
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Everybody here who is listening or watching, whether you are watching in 2025 or whether you are watching at some later year. This is a timely message for you and God will bring something into your life where you will have the opportunity to practice.
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what we have read about today. And I pray that when those opportunities arise, that these words of God come to your mind and that the Holy Spirit gives you the open eyes and the open ears and reminds you, as we are told in the New Testament, that he will, because the Holy Spirit teaches us everything, that he will remind you of these lessons, like what Jesus said the Holy Spirit would do.
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and that you would call upon his power to strengthen you because in Christ we are strong. In Jesus, we are strong when we are made weak. So let us rely upon him to do the right thing. And because we will remember that it is not okay for us to speak poorly of or to down to, or think we are better.
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and this could occur in church. or with other believers, we need to be that godly example. Like what we see with, and when we see the the kings of Judah, when they provide good example, people follow.
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And when they provide bad example, people follow. So let's be a good example of what we are learning and what God is putting upon our hearts and lead other people to God and to Jesus.
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including our Jewish brethren who are not yet believers, and show them by our love. There's that song that says they will know we are Christians by our love. So let us do as Jesus commanded and love.
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Love others and love God. So I hope you have a fantastic spirit-filled day today. And i will be here for everyone again tomorrow.