Reading through the Bible Chronologically in 2009

I would like to invite anyone who would enjoy reading and commenting on a journey through the Bible chronologically. Wouldn't it be awesome to have a running, living, and active commentary by a community of believers going through the scriptures together?

The proposed plan for reading through the scriptures chronologically is here, and can be subscribed to via Email, Rss, and the like.

Yesterday's scripture was Genesis 1-3, and today's is Genesis 4-7

If you have a comment on either passage and those going forward forward please feel free to comment. Also, if you think this endeavor would be better suited in it's own group please say so and I will create one. Also, if you like the idea of reading and commenting on this together, please take some time to add me as a friend.

Blessings,

Miguel

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Permalink Reply by Miguel on January 22, 2009 at 8:35am

Today's passage.

In Looking back, does anyone have any comments on the three men that visited Abram? Who they were? What significance? What application?

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Permalink Reply by Miguel on January 23, 2009 at 7:01am

The passage for today. God's Camp Mahanaim

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Permalink Reply by Miguel on January 28, 2009 at 8:53am

January 24th - January 25th - January 26th - January 27th - and today's passage. Any personal revelations?

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Permalink Reply by Miguel on January 29, 2009 at 9:44am

Today's Passage

In reading many parts of Genesis, I wonder how people have personally and spiritually benefited from the genealogy passages?

Anyone care to comment?

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Permalink Reply by Miguel on February 2, 2009 at 12:23pm

January 30th - January 31st - February 1st - February 2nd

God remembered his covenant. Did he forget for a while? God was looking for Moses to kill him. Didn't God know where he was?

Interesting that anthropomorphisms like these are so easily applied to Christ to diminish His deity, but are not placed on God in the same manner.

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Permalink Reply by Katie Mather on February 7, 2009 at 5:57am

I see geneology passages reveal that family is important to Father. Also our family lines are important because by them certain things, many things are passed down. Besides the passing of inheritances of wealth, land or animals, there is also the passing of blessings or curses, favor or disfavor. The begats show the lineage of cities and kingdoms as Jesus' lineage shows his source as Father's Kingdom.

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Permalink Reply by David Evans on February 7, 2009 at 7:44pm

(February 7th Exodus 25 and following)

I think that there must be a lot here that I just do not understand. The scripture that says it is God's glory to hide and matter and a kings glory to search it out, comes to mind. Maybe there are those who can mine more out of this passage than I can.

However the word Bronze sticks out to me.
The hebrew word for bronze is a little confusing in that it can mean, copper, brass or bronze. The latter 2 actually being mixtures or alloys that must be man made. So the word could mean different metals as it travels down through history. They did have arsenic bronze, which is a naturally occurring alloy. Tin bronze, which developed later, requires more sophisticated production techniques; tin has to be mined (mainly as the tin ore cassiterite) and smelted separately, then added to molten copper to make the bronze alloy.

Strongs references for bronze in the first testament is h5174 and the second testament is g5475
Examples that stood out to me of where the word copper/brass/bronze was used
bronze incense burner
bronze serpent
they bound sampson with bronze fetters
goliath had a bronze helmet on his head
Manasseh, King of Judah was carried of in bronze fetters
Daniels image of the great statue had belly and thighs of bronze
In that same passage Jeremiah 6:28 the scriptures compare bronze and iron to the rebels and slanderers and corrupters. Possibly because at this point in time it really was bronze. Meaning it was a mixture of two things and many times the bible uses things that are mixed as bad versus things that are pure

"Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me; they are all bronze, tin, iron, and lead, in the midst of a furnace; they have become dross from silver (Ezekial 22:8)

The Messiah - body, arms feet said to look like burnished bronze (Eze 40:3 and Dan 10:6)

The Four chariots are said to fly thru two mountains of Bronze (zec 6:1)

Jesus sat and watched how the peope tossed copper/bronze into the treasury and how many who were rich put in much (Mathew and the story of the widow's mite)

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal (1 cor 13:1)

Interestingly I could not find a reference to bronze being used in the New Jerusalem or New Earth (I could be wrong about this of course)