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Update on Esther! She is doing great! The swelling and redness are gone! Thanks to those of you who prayed!
What’s the best kept secret of Douglas County? I’ll give you a few hints: The grass is as green as the day is long! Beautiful carpeted lawn. Hundreds of flowers are blooming in reds, yellows and a cacophony of colors. A dozen tall stately pine trees surround the place like sentinels, while another dozen maples stretch out their leafy branches to cover the hidden garden with their shade. Above, the sky is blue and the sun is shining. A dragonfly of a color and beauty I can’t describe lazily hovers across the lawn for all of us to admire. Behind is the quiet cascade of Deer Creek running endlessly past. The sound of beautiful music and blended voices just seems appropriate for this setting. It’s Sunday at the Pine Grove Amphitheater and if you’ve ever been there, you know what I mean, and you love to be there! This is the best kept secret of Douglas County! Thank God for its beauty. For a look go to www.pinegrovecommunitychurch.com
Today's Scripture reading is 2 Samuel 19:1-22; Nahum 2; Luke5:20-39
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Today’s thought comes from Daniel 9:24 "Seventy weeks are determined For your people… 25 "Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times. 26 "And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.
I dare you to predict a significant earth shaking event that will occur exactly 483 years in the future. The good news is, if your predictions are that far into the future you won’t be around to face the music when they don’t come true. How can any one of us nearsighted little humans think that we could possibly know the shape of things to come! 483 years ago would have been the year 1526. By now Christopher Columbus has been dead for 20 years! The conquistadors are landing with alarming regularity on the Americas. William Tyndale has just begun to print “The Tyndale Bible” in English with the help of Martin Luther. The crossbow is in production and the production of firearms are still 25 years in the future. How could any person in 1526 predict the rise to world power of the United States of America? It was an inhospitable wilderness inhabited by hostile “savages.” Who, in 1526 would have predicted the automobile, air travel, space travel, the internet, or the host of other amazing changes that have occurred in the last 100 years alone! God dared to do so. The Almighty named the exact year when Christ would die 483 years before it happened! Let’s do the math, and I hope you like math because this can be confusing! 62 weeks (or sevens) plus 7 weeks = 69 weeks. That equals 483 “Sabbath years” of sevens. Jewish calendars used a 360-day year, so our total is 173,880 days (rather than years). When do the 173,880 days start? The “command to rebuild Jerusalem” was given by Artaxerxes Longimanus on March 14, 445 B.C. In the first 7 weeks, 49 years Jerusalem was rebuilt! Even despite the opposition of Sanballat and Tobiah, Ezra and Nehemiah saw the fulfillment of that portion of the prophecy. Exactly 173,880 days later on April 6, 32 AD Jesus would ride into Jerusalem on a donkey proclaiming himself as “Messiah the Prince!” Immediately after those 69 weeks he would be crucified. How could Daniel have known this in advance? How could anyone have contrived this detailed prediction over three centuries before? This stunning prophecy, correct to the very day, is one of the most amazing proofs of the almighty power of God in Scriptures.
Dear All Powerful Lord. Once again I am reminded that you know all things! You scripted them out so perfectly. You have all things under control. They may not seem so to my perceptions, but to you, all things work together for your glory! I will trust in you.
“May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.”
6-29 The Messiah Will Be Cut Off
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