Day 81..."Caleb and Joshua, Parable of Tenants"
The people of Israel have placed God to test ten times. God commends Caleb who has a different spirit. He along with Joshua shall see Canaan. The ten who brought back the bad report died by a plague. What a dramatic story of vision! In a shocking story, a violator of the Sabbath is stoned to death. Jesus will expand our thinking about Sabbath keeping and breaking. The Psalmist again sounds like Moses in among Exodus, Leviticus or Numbers..."there shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god." Jesus tells the parable of the tenants...even the son is killed. This parable foretells us of Jesus' rejection by the Jews and death on the cross.
posted by Philip McVay @ 9:11 PM
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While having nothing specifically to do with today's readings, I came across a good poem by George Herbert on Scripture that was too good not to pass along to the 365 days of Bible reading crowd:
The Holy Scriptures
Oh that I knew how all thy lights combine,
And the configuration of their glory!
Seeing not only how each verse doth shine,
But all the constellations of the story.
This verse marks that, and both do make a motion
Unto a third, that ten leaves off doth lie:
Then as dispersed herbs do watch a potion,
These three make up some Christian's destiny:
Such are thy secrets, which my life makes good,
And comments on thee: for in ev'ry thing
Thy words do find me out, and parallels bring,
And in another make me understood.
Stars are poor books, and oftentimes do miss:
This book of stars lights to eternal bliss.
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