The Voice

This morning I read 1 Chronicles 22:

Building materials and craftspeople are gathered for the future building of the LORD’s temple.

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I listened to 1 Chronicles 21 today:

David was influenced by Satan to count the troops, and it made God angry with him. God made David choose his own punishment.

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Today I read 1 Chronicles 18:

David defeated the Philistines and was given gifts to congratulate his victory, which he dedicated to God.

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Today I read 1 Chronicles 17:

David felt guilty for living in a nice palace while God was in a tent. God was fine with the tent and was not complaining about it, but told David through the prophet Nathan what was to come. He would build a house for him, through his offspring.

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Today I read 1 Chronicles 16:

David gave food to everyone and they all worshiped God, prepared sacrifices, and praised God with trumpets, then David went home to bless his family also.

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Today I read 2 Kings 21:

Today I read 2 Kings 20:

King Hezekiah was sick and heard from Isaiah that he was going to die, so he cried out to God and wept. God changed His mind and allowed him to recover from his sickness and live for another 15 years. Hezekiah later gave a tour and showed off all his stuff to some visitors, and Isaiah told him that his stuff and his descendants will be carried off to Babylon, but he was glad that he would have peace and security in his own lifetime.

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Today I read

1 Corinthians 1:

Paul corrects the church in Corinth for arguing about who they follow, and instructs them that they are to boast in the LORD, not in man. They are to remember that God’s wisdom is foolishness to those who are perishing, and that they did not bring significant value in wisdom to God’s kingdom when they were called.

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And then I listened to (Week 16, Day 77) of the Immerse audio from four chapters in the book of Revelation, and then I took some reference notes shown below.

Revelation 8:

The seventh seal was opened. The first angel of seven blew a trumpet and caused hail, fire and blood to burn 1/3 of the plants on the earth. The second angel’s trumpet blow caused a fiery mountain to fall on the earth and killed 1/3 of the life in and on the ocean. The third angel’s trumpet blast caused a star to fall and kill 1/3 by contaminating many of the fresh water sources on the earth. The fourth angel’s trumpet blast caused 1/3 of the sun, moon, and stars to go dark. Then an eagle warned about the last three trumpets that were still yet to come.

Revelation 9:

The fifth angel blew his trumpet, which caused a star to fall to earth from heaven, and that star was given a key to open the shaft of a bottomless pit. Opening this shaft caused a plume of smoke to be released and stinging locusts flew out and sting (but not to kill) all who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads, torturing them for five months. They look pretty weird up close. The sixth angel blew a trumpet, causing four angels to kill 1/3 of all humankind, and they totaled 200 million mounted troops. Those who did not die still would not turn to God, but continued to worship idols, murders, thefts, witchcraft, and other sins.

Revelation 10:

An angel was standing on sea and land and was holding a little scroll, and a voice from Heaven told John to eat it and that it would be sweet, then sour. It would cause him to prophesy about many peoples, nations, languages and Kings.

Revelation 11:

John was told to measure the temple, just not the outer courtyard. Two witnesses would be given power to prophesy for 1,260 days. They will have power to send drought, plagues and will kill those who try to harm them with fire flashing out from their mouths. The beast will come out of the pit and kill them, people will celebrate their death, and after three and a half days, they will be resurrected by God and brought up to Heaven in full view of their enemies. The seventh angel blew his trumpet, and voices announced from Heaven what wrath and judgement was going to be happening soon. Then an earthquake happened, lightning, thunder, another earthquake, and then a terrible hailstorm.

This morning I read 2 Kings 6:

Elisha made a lost axe head float so that it could be recovered from the water by it’s concerned borrower. Elisha is a wanted man, but plans to kill him fail and his would be attackers are blinded, yet shown kindness in their helplessness by their enemies.

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Today is Day 73 of Week 15 of the Immerse Audio I am keeping up with. The audio starts with an introduction explaining the cultural context of the writing of 1st John.

1 John 1:

God is light and truth, we need Him, we are sinners, but are cleansed and no longer live in habitual sin.

1 John 2:

Don’t sin. Keep doing the right thing. Live in the power of the Holy Spirit. Be ready for Jesus.

1 John 3:

We are God’s children. We don’t go on sinning. We believe and we obey God, because we are His children.

1 John 4:

God is love. Do not fear or hate, and do not believe others who do not believe Jesus did not come in the flesh. Love each other. Those who hate their fellow believers are not children of God.

1 John 5:

Believe in the son of God. Believe in the testimony of God about the Son. Pray for sinning believers. Don’t allow anything to take the place of God in your hearts.

(Archived audio) Today’s Chapter reading was

2 Kings 5:

Elisha healed Naaman of his leprosy to show that there is a God in Israel, and refused the gifts he offered, but Gehazi secretly ran after Naaman to deceptively accept the gifts Naaman offered, and was punished, getting leprosy himself, because Elisha knew what he had done.

Immerse reading was (Week 15, Day 72) and read John 18-21.

John 18:

Jesus and His disciples went to an olive grove they had been to before, and some men came to arrest Jesus. Jesus asked who they were looking for, and said “I Am he”, which caused them to fall to the ground. He asked that his disciples not be also taken into custody, since they were only coming for Him. Peter denied Jesus when individuals asked him if he knew Jesus. Jesus was questioned by the high priest about what He was teaching. He answered that He taught publicly in the temple and the synagogues, and he should ask those who heard Him, so they slapped His face. Then He was sent to Pilate (the Roman Governor) to be tried and executed.

John 19:

Jesus was whipped and people yelled for Him to be crucified, even though the Roman Governor didn’t believe that He should be crucified. So he sent Jesus to be crucified. Jesus asked a disciple to take care of His mother for Him and died on the cross, without His legs being broken as the two others being crucified had done to them. A secret disciple asked to take Jesus’ body and put it in a tomb.

John 20:

Mary found the tomb open early on Sunday morning. She told Peter and another disciple about it and they ran to check out the tomb. They believed and went home. Later angels appeared and asked Mary why she was crying, and then she turned and saw Jesus, but didn’t recognize who He was until He spoke to her. Jesus also appeared to the disciples and taught them to believe and receive the Holy Spirit, and did other miracles that were not written down.

John 21:

Jesus appeared in shore while some disciples were fishing without any caught. He instructed them to throw their net on the right side of the boat, and they caught 153 large fish. He made breakfast for them and asked Peter if he loved Him three times. Then He told Peter about how he would be martyred, and Peter was curious about how the disciple Jesus loved would also die eventually, but Jesus wouldn’t tell him. Jesus did so many other miracles that they would not be able to be recorded even if they tried to.