This week is the turning point!!! At the end of the week, we'll have made it through the entire Bible and start over again in the New Testament.
Here is a bit of info for you about you will read this week.
Malachi - The last of the books of the Old Testament, Malachi is named for a prophet. And the name means "My messenger or God's messenger." There is virtually no biographical information concerning the author in this book and very little historical information for placing it as well. We can infer that Malachi was a prophet in Jerusalem at some point after the return of the exiles and probably before Nehemiah. He speaks out against lax religious and social behavior of the Israelites, in particular the priests.
Gospel of Matthew - Matthew is the first of the Gospels recorded in the New Testament and is also one of the three "synoptic Gospels" (meaning similar or together because they include some of the same stories in the same sequences and the same words - John is the exception). This Gospel is attributed to one of Jesus' disciples, Matthew the tax collector. And from the information and perspective he includes we can tell that he was writing to a primarily Jewish audience: he stresses Jewish law, he doesn't explain Jewish customs, and in the beginning of the Gospel he includes a genealogy which takes Jesus' ancestry all the way back to Father Abraham. There are seven main sections in this Gospel, with a prologue about Jesus' early life, five sections covering his ministry and the last section about his death and resurrection.
Here is the schedule:
23, Sunday: Zechariah 11-14
24, Monday: Malachi 1-4
25, Tuesday: Matthew 1-4
26, Wednesday: Matthew 5-8
27, Thursday: Matthew 9-12
28, Friday: Matthew 13-16
29, Saturday: Matthew 17-20
May God bless the reading, the hearing and most importantly the living out of His Holy Word. Amen!
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