Thy Kingdom Come!
Verse of the week to live by:
“Great is Your faithfulness.” (Lam. 3:23).
Bible Readings 2025, Week 45; Nov. 10-16
Nov. 10; Jer. 52; Lam 1-2;
1. Jer. 52:1; “Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.”
Who was Zedekiah?
2. Lam. 1; “How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave.”
Who wrote the book of Lamentations?
3. Lam. 2:1; “How the Lord in his anger has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud! He has cast down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.”
What is the meaning of this verse?
Nov. 11; Lam 3-4; 1 Pet. 2;
1. Lam. 3:21-24; “This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.“ The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I hope in Him!”
Although God sent His people into exile, Jeremiah saw it as a blessing that they were not consumed. Why did Prophet Jeremiah say so?
2. 1 Pet. 2: 9-10; “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.”
Where in the Old Testament do we find a reference to this quotation?
3. 1 Pet. 2:9; “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.”
What does God want of us as His redeemed people?
Nov. 12; Lam 5; Ezek. 1-2; 1 Pet. 3;
1. Lam. 5:21; “Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old— unless you have utterly rejected us, and you remain exceedingly angry with us.”
Did God reject his people forever?
2. Ezek. 1:1; “In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the Chebar canal, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.”
Who wrote the Book of Ezekiel?
3. 1 Pet. 3:15; “In your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.”
How do we honor Christ the Lord as holy?
Nov. 13; Ezek. 3-4; 1 Pet. 4
1. Ezek. 3:1-3; “And he said to me, “Son of man, eat whatever you find here. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.” 2 So I opened my mouth, and he gave me this scroll to eat. 3 And he said to me, “Son of man, feed your belly with this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it.” Then I ate it, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.”
What is the scroll that Ezekiel ate?
2. 1 Pet. 4:8; “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.”
How does love cover a multitude of sins?
3. 1 Pet.4:12; “Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.”
Why did Apostle Peter mean by “fiery trial”?
Nov. 14; Ezek. 5-7;
1. Ezek. 5:14; “Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.”
What nation is God talking about?
2. Ezek. 6:1-2; “The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them.”
What did Prophet Ezekiel prophesy about the mountains of Israel? Why the mountains of Israel? What do the mountains of Israel refer to?
3. Ezek. 7:2; “And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.”
What is the “end” that Prophet Ezekiel is talking about?
Nov. 15; Ezek. 8-9; 1 Pet. 5;
1. Ezek. 8:16-17; “And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the east. 17 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations that they commit here, that they should fill the land with violence and provoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their nose.”
What is the meaning of this vision?
2. 1 Pet. 5:5; “Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
How do you define humility?
3. 1 Pet.5:7; “casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.”
How do we cast all our anxiety on the Lord?
Nov. 16; Ezek. 10-12
1. Ezek. 10:18; “Then the glory of the Lord went out from the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.”
What is the glory of Lord?
2. Ezek. 10:18; “Then the glory of the Lord went out from the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.”
What does it mean that the glory of the Lord left the temple?
3. Ezek. 11:22-24; “Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them. 23 And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city and stood on the mountain that is on the east side of the city. 24 And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the exiles. Then the vision that I had seen went up from me.”
Where did the glory of the Lord go after the departure from the temple?