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…And of course, you’ve probably already seen this one by now (along with 8.5 million other people):
A new scripture reading schedule for 2012-13 to read through all the scriptures in a year is now available. We have desired to follow the traditional one-year Torah readings cycle and to do that, we need to stop the current one before completing it to make the move to the Sukkot-to-Sukkot cycle. This new schedule begins 10/7/12. (If you desire to complete the current year using the previous schedule, it will still be available through the end of the calendar year here.)
This new reading schedule has several unique features that we hope will make your daily Bible reading habit a joyous breeze:
If you’d like to midrash with us during the week, join me on this blog. Each week’s scripture readings are posted on the blog on the first day of the week. Then let each of us bring to YHVH’s banqueting table the sweet tidbits, truffles, bonbons, and priceless nuggets and pearls that we discover in his word for our mutual delight by posting your comments or questions. On this blog, you can also sign up as a subscriber, so that each fresh scriptural insight that I post will automatically be sent to you.
Yesterday our family traveled across the high desert wilderness, and down from the mountains of Central Oregon where we had celebrated Sukkot NW 2012. We arrived back at our home last evening, which is in a valley that is slightly higher than sea-level. Kind of a prophetic journey, if you will, like descending from mountains of Jerusalem to the Valley of the Dead Sea.
Please allow me to share with you some more photos from our Sukkot celebration. This time, I’m not sitting in my truck in the parking lot of the Best Western trying to upload this blog post. Rather, I’m back in the comforts of my converted chicken house office.
Perhaps we’ll have the honor of spending Sukkot with you next year in Oregon???
Enjoy the photos!
Our praise and worship team.
Some of our kids having fun in YHVH’s outdoors. May our children become like the tree of a righteous man who is planted by YHVH Yeshua, who is our River of Life and is the Written and Living Torah-Word of Elohim (Ps 2 and John 1:1,14).
My youngest son Jared next to Oregon’s largest ponderosa pine tree.
Heidi rejoicing at Sukkot during the “season of our joy.”
Bill and Luzvim renew their wedding vows in the wedding chupah.
Twelve-year-old Caleb from Washington State worshipping in the Sukkah.
| 10/07/12 | Genesis 1:1–2:3 | Joshua 1 | Psalms 1 | Matthew 1 |
| 10/08/12 | Genesis 2:4–19 | Joshua 2 | Psalms 2 | Matthew 2 |
| 10/09/12 | Genesis 2:20–3:21 | Joshua 3 | Psalms 3 | Matthew 3 |
| 10/10/12 | Genesis 3:22–4:18 | Joshua 4 | Psalms 4 | Matthew 4 |
| 10/11/12 | Genesis 4:19–22 | Joshua 5 | Psalms 5 | Matthew 5:1-26 |
| 10/12/12 | Genesis 4:23–5:24 | Joshua 6, 7 | Psalms 6 | Matthew 5:27-48 |
| 10/13/12 | Genesis 5:25–6:8 | Joshua 8 | Psalms 7 | Matthew 6:1-15 |
| Haftarah — Isaiah 42:5 – 43:10 | ||||
Most of this week’s blog discussion points will be on these passages.
There are 4 sections of scripture to read each day. One each from the Torah, the Prophets, the Writings, and from the Testimony of Yeshua. Each week, the Torah reading will follow the traditional one-year reading cycle as well as the haftarah. By reading all the scriptures on this schedule each day, you will have read all scriptures from Genesis to Revelation by the end of next Sukkot (2013)!
The new Bible Reading Schedule can be found on the right sidebar under “Helpful Links.”
If you have general comments or questions on the weekly Scripture readings not addressed in a blog post, here’s a place for you to post those. Just use the “leave a reply” link below.
Weekly Blog Scripture Readings for 10/7 through 10/13/2012
Greetings from Sukkot Northwest 2012 in La Pine Oregon!
The blog has been quiet for the last week or so, since my family and I have been in Central Oregon where we, along with our congregation, host a regional Sukkot celebration. This is our tenth anniversary of hosting Sukkot NW.
Internet reception is spotty in this intermountain region, and I am presently sitting in the parking lot of the local Best Western hotel and hooking into their wi-fi to upload these photos of our Sukkot celebration that I took on my I-Phone.
Enjoy!
Welcome in through the wedding chupah to our Sukkot celebration, which pictures the wedding supper of the Lamb during the Millennium.
The Sukkah—a place of prayer, worship and the anointing.
The praise and worship team.
Dancing for joy.
Tammi from Texas fulfilling the Torah command to wave lulavim during Sukkot.
Tambourine Heidi from Oregon worshipping YHVH.
Preacher Dr. Joe teaching the Word of Elohim.
Brother Bill calling redeemed Israel to worship her king—Messiah Yeshua.
Welcoming in the Shabbat during erev Shabbat dinner.
May all that we do be as sweet-smelling incense to our Father in heaven!
Leviticus 2–8; 2 Chronicles 33–36; Acts 1–10; Matthew 28; and Mark 1–6
Most of this week’s blog discussion points will be on these passages.
Please note:
This will be the final week for this Bible Reading Schedule as we are beginning a new reading schedule that follows the Torah Portion readings, beginning with Parashat B’reisheet (Genesis 1:1–6:8). In order to be in sync with the parashiyot readings, we will end this one early.
There are 4 sections of scripture to read each day. One each from the Torah, the Prophets, the Writings, and from the Testimony of Yeshua. Each week, the Torah reading will follow the traditional one-year reading cycle as well as the haftarah. By reading all the scriptures on this schedule each day, you will have read all scriptures from Genesis to Revelation by the end of next Sukkot (2013)!
The new Bible Reading Schedule can be found on the right sidebar under “Helpful Links.”
If you have general comments or questions on the weekly Scripture readings not addressed in a blog post, here’s a place for you to post those. Just use the “leave a reply” link below.
Weekly Blog Scripture Readings for 9/30 through 10/6/2012
Matthew 24:28, Wherever the carcass is. (Gr. carcass literally, “dead body”) Since eagles feed on live prey, not carrion, some Bible commentators take the reference to eagles to mean any scavenger bird such as a vulture, which can resemble vultures.
In Yeshua’s Parable of the Sower (Matt 13:3–9), the birds that came and gathered up the seed that was sown by the wayside metaphorical represent the wicked one (Satan) who steals away the good seed (verse 19). One possible meaning of this enigmatic saying of Yeshua is that as vultures hover over a dead body hoping for a meal, so demonic spirits will hover over the body of Yeshua (i.e. the spiritual body of believers—the congregation of the saints) just before his return waiting to pick off those who are spiritually weak or dead.
The righteous being picked off by the birds of prey hardly seems like an apt metaphor for the resurrection of the righteous, since in the same chapter we learn that the angels will gather in the elect (verse 31), and, as we have already noted, elsewhere Yeshua uses the birds of prey to represent the wicked one (elsewhere called “the prince of the power of the air,” Eph 2:2).
Furthermore, Yeshua gives this illustration just after discussing the trials and spiritual delusion of the great tribulation period prior to his second coming when many people will come under the spiritual deception of false prophets and false messiahs (verses 15–27).