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May 13, 2025 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Thank you for joining me as we learn about the connection between Passover, First Fruits, Shavuot (pronounced shav-oo-oat) and Pentecost. As part of understanding and observing the festivals that God has appointed for us to observe, we count the Omer (pronounced oh-mare) today and then have our daily Bible reading session!
Here is the link for a downloadable devotional if you would like to count the Omer for yourself. It has been put out by the Messianic Jewish Congregation Shoresh David in Florida: https://www.shoreshdavid.org/download/counting-the-omer-booklet/
Today's reading covers 2 Kings Chapter 6:24-72 and Chapter 7:1-20. Today we will also read Deuteronomy Chapter 58 50:-57, as a prelude to our reading, to understand why today's events were happening in Israel. We will read about terrible atrocities being committed in Israel- people were eating their children while under siege and unable to receive food. And yet, we will see that this is EXACTLY what God said would happen to His people when they failed to obey his commands. In our discussion for daily application today we will talk about the fact that God disciplines those He loves, which includes not just Israel, but US. And Jesus taught us that even those branches which bear fruit, God will prune those branches so that they grow even MORE fruit! The purpose of discipline and pruning is to draw us closer to God and help us to bear fruit. Let us be encouraged and reassured today as we go through events in our life, whether we experience discipline or pruning, God's purposes are for GOOD and He WILL work everything to good, according to His purpose.
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Introduction and Welcome
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Hi there, everybody. Today is Tuesday. It's May 13th. It's 2025. And you're here with Robin at In the Family Way Coaching. We are here for our daily counting of the Omer, as well as our daily Bible reading.
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Thank you so much for joining me, whether you are listening along on your favorite podcasting app or on YouTube Music, Apple Music, Spotify. iHeartRadio, Pandora, wherever you are listening, I am glad you're here, or wherever you are watching the video on YouTube ah videos or on my site or on Spotify, I am so glad that you are here watching or listening.
Daily Bible Reading and Commitment
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We are going through the Bible this year using the Day by Day Kids Bible, and it has been written by Karen Henley.
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If you are following along on that daily commitment calendar, go ahead and get that out, get your sticker ready, however you're marking it off, because you're about to hear the Bible today.
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We are going to be doing our daily counting of the Omer, and if you would like to follow along, just simply repeat after me.
Understanding the Omer and its Significance
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Blessed are you, o Lord our God, Ruler of the universe, who has set us apart by your commandments and has commanded us to count the Omer.
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Today is the second day of the fifth week and day 30.
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I have counted the Omer.
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Wow, we are moving right along. We are 30 days into the 50 days. I wanted to read what was at the very beginning of this devotional put out by ShoreshDavid.org.
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And as always, there will be a link to this in the description below wherever you are listening or watching.
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Every day we count, let us be reminded of the link between Passover, which commemorates the Exodus and Deliverance, and Shavuot, Feast of Weeks, or Pentecost, which commemorates the giving of the Torah, the first five books of the Bible, and God's Holy Spirit.
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It reminds us that the redemption from slavery was not complete until we received the Torah, God's Word, It also reminds us that without God's Spirit, we don't have the ability to understand His Word nor the strength to keep it.
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Our purpose in counting the Omer is to draw closer to God and be obedient to His Word. We should expect that our faith level will be raised each day in anticipation of what God will do in our lives and in the lives of those around us.
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Wow, I love that. So that is why we are counting the Omer each day.
Lessons from 2 Kings: Disobedience and Consequences
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We are not only being obedient, but we are looking to have our faith raised every day by doing so.
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Today we are going to pick up 2 Kings 6, verses 24 through 7, verse 2, as well as ah actually all the way through verse 20 of chapter 7 in 2 Kings.
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What we are going to be seeing today is the promise of God's curses when his people do not obey his word.
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And what we have been seeing in Israel is that they have a succession of bad kings. And as soon as the nation split into two kingdoms, immediately the first king, Jeroboam, began to institute idol worship on purpose.
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Because he did not want the people who lived in Israel to commute to Judah, where the temple it was, in order to observe the holy days, because he was afraid that he would lose his people, his citizens.
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And as we see, that has been followed by a number of consequences. I want to read to us out of Deuteronomy.
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And this is Deuteronomy chapter 28. And chapter 28 first speaks of blessings that God will issue for obedience to his word and keeping his rules.
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But he also issues what he calls curses for disobedience. And we will see this was clear back when he gave it to Moses.
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In Deuteronomy, and we're going to pick up in Deuteronomy
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Let's see.
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let's see
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Let's pick up in 53. We will just pick up in 53.
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You will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, the Lord your God has given you in the siege and stress with which your enemies will distress you.
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the most tender and delicate man among you, his eye will become evil against his brother and the wife of his bosom and the rest of his children that he has left.
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He will not give to a single one of them from his children's flesh that he will eat because nothing else is left for him in the siege and stress with which your enemy will distress you within all your town gates.
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the tender and delicate woman among you, who never ventured to set the sole of her foot on the ground out of delicateness and tenderness, her eye will become evil against the husband of her bosom and her son and daughter.
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For in secret she will eat the afterbirth that issues from between her legs and the children she bears, for lack of anything else in the siege, and stress with which your enemy will distress you within all your gates.
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If you do not take take care to do all the words of this law and the things written in this scroll, to fear this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God,
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So today we are going to read about this exactly happening. The city inru in Israel will be under siege and we will be seeing the people doing exactly what this curse says will happen.
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Many, many years before it happened, God said it would if they did not obey.
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So today we are reading about a city with no food.
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Later, the king of Aram got his whole army together and they went into Israel. They camped around the city of Samaria. They wanted Samaria to give up, so they stayed there for a long time.
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That is called a siege.
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After a while, the people in the city ran out of food. One cup of seeds cost two ounces of silver. A donkey's head cost two pounds of silver.
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That is called inflation.
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One day, King Joram passed by the city wall. A woman cried out, Help me! How can I help you if God doesn't help you? Can I get food from the barn floor?
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He asked. Can I get drink from the wine tub? What's wrong? A woman I know had an idea, she said. This woman said we would eat my son one day, and then we would eat her son the next day.
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So we ate my son one day, but then she hid her son. King Joram was so upset that he tore his clothes.
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People watched him walk along by the wall, and he said, I'll kill Elisha for this. And then he sent a message to Elisha.
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Elisha was in his house, and the leaders of Israel were sitting there with him. The message had not come yet, but Elisha said, A killer is sending someone to kill me.
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Close the door, and don't let the servant in with the message. I hear King Joram's footsteps behind him.
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Then the servant came with the message from the king. It said, God has brought us this trouble. Why should I wait for him to do anything anymore? Here is what God says, says Elijah.
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Tomorrow at this time, it will be different. Seven quarts of flour will cost only one ounce of silver. And 13 quarts of grain will cost only one piece of silver.
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King Joram was leaning on an arm army officer's arm, and the officer said, How could that happen? Even if God opened heaven, it wouldn't happen.
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Oh, you'll get to see it, said Elisha, but you won't get to eat it.
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2 Kings 7, verses The Sound of Horses and Chariots the sound of horses and chariots
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Four men were at the city gate. They all had the skin
The Miracle of the Lepers and Elisha's Prophecy
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sickness, leprosy. And they said to each other, why should we stay here? We'll die if we stay here.
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And we'll die if we go into the city too. Let's go to the enemy camp and let's give up. They might let us s live. And if they kill us, that's all right. We would die here anyways.
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The sun began to go down and the four sick men walked to the enemy camp. They came to the edge of the camp and looked around. No one was there.
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God had sent the sound of horses and chariots. The enemy army had heard it and they said, King Joram must have called another army and they're coming in to help him.
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So they ran away as the sun was going down and they left all their tents, horses and donkeys behind. The four sick men went into one tent.
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They ate food and drank wine. They took silver and gold and clothes. Then they went and hid them. They came back to the camp and they went into another tent.
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They took more things and hid them too. Then they said, this isn't right. We're keeping this good news to ourselves.
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Something bad will happen to us if we wait until morning. So let's go tell King Joram right away.
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The four men went to the gate. They shouted to the gatekeepers. We went to the army enemy camp, but no one was there. They've left everything behind.
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The gatekeeper shouted the news to the people, and soon the news came to the palace. It was night, but King Joram got up. He talked to his army men about it.
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I know what happened, he said. The enemies know we don't have any food, so they left their camp, and they're hiding out in the country. They'll fight us when we go out there.
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One army officer said, send some men out there to sea. They might get killed, but they're gonna die here anyway. So the leaders got two chariots and some horses.
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They got some men to drive the chariots. King Joram told them, go out and see what happened. The drivers followed the enemy army's tracks.
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They went all the way to the Jordan River. They saw tools here and there, and it was all like that down the road. That's because the enemy had left in such a hurry.
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The men went back and told King Joram about it. Then all the people went to the enemy camp, and they took the things that were left behind. So seven quarts of flour cost only one ounce of silver.
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Thirteen quarts of grain cost only one piece of silver. It happened just like God said it would.
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King Joram put an army officer in charge of the gate, and he was the man that King Joram had leaned on at Elisha's house. He had not believed what Elisha said, so Elisha told him that he would see it, but he wouldn't get to eat it.
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And that's just what happened. There were lots of people going out of the gate. The crowd bumped into this officer. He fell down. The crowd ran over him.
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And he died.
Reflecting on Faith and Divine Promises
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And that is the end of our reading today.
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Wow. So we see that God was not only issuing a curse to the people, a terrible curse that he said would happen if they did not obey, but he also ended up having mercy and providing for the people in abundance.
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Once King Joram came to Elisha, now he came to Elisha looking to kill Elisha, but even still, he finally came to Elisha.
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And once he did, God sent food in abundance for them. And he said it would be different by this time tomorrow. And even then, King Joram did not believe him.
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He did not when oh believe. He didn't say he didn't believe. The army officer did. And so he didn't get to partake of any of the food. But when the ah sick men came and told him that there were no men in the um enemy camp,
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He didn't believe it and he said that they're just out there waiting to ambush us once we come out and see. So he too had doubt. Our daily application today is to remember that God is trustworthy.
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When he says something is going to happen, it will happen. It may seem like we are waiting a long time for things to happen that have been written in the Bible, such as Jesus returning, but we know that he will come back.
Discipline as a Path to Growth
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We know that God has sent the Messiah just as he'd said he would. When God says that something will happen, it will happen. God said that he would send all of the people from the nations of Israel and Judah away.
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from where the land they were living if they did not obey him. And that's exactly what happened. But he also says that he will bring them back. And so we see that happening with the reestablishment of the nation of Israel.
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And we see him calling his people. Israel is still God's chosen people. And they are who God made his promises to.
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and through. God brought Jesus, the Messiah, through from the Jewish people, as well as his spirit. And we see that God still has a plan for his people who are said to be the apple of his eye,
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The Bible also tell us that he disciplines those that he loves. So his point in discipline is not to simply be cruel, but it is to draw his people to him.
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That is the purpose of discipline, is that we would correct what we are doing wrong and have wisdom. Fear of the Lord or making God the most important one in our lives is the beginning of wisdom.
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We need to remember to make God the most important one in our lives because he loves us and he will discipline us if we require it. And even though ah we may not be disciplined at times, Jesus tells us that he will prune us, which can feel like discipline, but he is pruning us so that even good branches that bear good fruit will bear even more fruit than they did before.
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So when we go through situations that cause us to need to rely on God and remember to rely on God for everything, not just the big things, Those are times of pruning.
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they They could be times of discipline. But whatever it is, we know that God works good into everything. Even if we don't see it, we can have faith to know that God knows everything that is going to happen, and that he loves us, and he takes care of us, and he is working good into everything, even if we cannot see it, because his ways are higher than our ways.
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So I hope that you have found today thought provoking and convicting so that we will be mindful that when we go through things, it may be discipline that we are experiencing, it may be pruning that we are experiencing, but either way, the goal is to bear more fruit.
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And like we discussed yesterday, a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. And in the same way, a good tree it does not bear bad fruit. And Jesus will prune our tree because he is the true vine.
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We are the branches and we have to stay with him so that we can bear fruit because we cannot do it alone.
Closing Thoughts and Call to Action
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And that he will prune us so that we can bear even more good fruit for him through the Holy Spirit.
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So thank you so much for listening today. I love the fact that you are here, that you are obeying God's word to count the Omer with me. I love that you are sharing this event with people.
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ah have those of you telling me that you are sharing this event with others. And I am glad that God is is, we are reaching people to spread the word about reading God's word.
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Because that is the goal, is so that we can learn how to make God the most important ones in our lives. so that we can bear fruit for him and we can be the light of the world.
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So I hope everybody has fantastic rest of their day and I will be here for everyone again tomorrow.