Day 204..."Another food miracle with a twist...Jezebel dies a horrible death...Patches"

Chapter seven tells another amazing food story with the Syrians abandoning their homes. This leaves abundant supplies for hungry lepers and others. As it turns out...the Syrians fled hearing a massive army which was really God making the noise as an army. Chapters eight and nine are filled with several murders of kings and much violence. The story of Jezebel does stand out as one of the most violent deaths in the Bible. She was trampled by horses and mutilated so badly she could not even be recognized. In the Isaiah reading...I had to look up the meaning of the word necromancer which means..."a divine communication with the dead." Isaiah paints a pretty bleak picture in refering to "no dawn." The parable of the of the unshrunk patch on the old garment has the same message as the "New Wine and New Wineskins." The old structures of Israel could not hold the new teachings of Jesus. One of the worst things that can happen is to place structure over the Gospel. This elevation of structure over message blurs the simple "good news" of Jesus Christ. Structure is a means of telling the "good news" and not the message.