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Welcome to Livin’ Light’s Bible-In-A-Year challenge of discovering God’s love for us and His purpose for our lives. Here is the format for this great adventure: The daily reading assignment is posted at 5 a.m. After each day’s reading, Leigh An Coplin, the blog host, shares observations and poses questions about difficult passages to Rob Fields, who studied Christian Education at Asbury Seminary and currently teaches Biology in the Orlando area. To start from the beginning, click on 365 Bible Readings and scroll down to Day 1. The reading schedule is taken from The One Year Chronological Bible NLT.
Today’s Reading
— 1 Chronicles 23-25
(979 BC) Click here for a timeline of the entire Bible.
Questions & Observations
Q. (1 Chronicles 23:25): What does it mean when David said that The Lord will always live in Jerusalem?
A. When the temple that David has been planning for is built by his son Solomon, it will become the final location for the Ark and therefore God’s presence.
Q. (1 Chronicles 24:6): What does “casting lots” mean?
A. It’s the same thing we’ve been looking at before: the use of the Urim and Thummim to determine God’s will. They were “cast” or thrown as a kind of “yes” or “no” answer.
Q. (1 Chronicles 23-25): Today’s reading is primarily for record-keeping? One thought that comes to mind is why is there so much work in the temple? Of course, I am judging this in today’s standards where you go to church with 30-10,000 people depending on the size of the building. But, when you have hundreds of thousands of worshippers, the duties would be multiplied. And, this is no basic church, it is where the Ark rests.
A. Yes, it is pointing out two important aspects of ministry for the various priests: care for the temple and ministries of worship on behalf of the king and royal family. Those tasks would have required plenty of labor, so it is not really a surprise to me that there were a lot of priestly families involved.
For further reading: How did the tribe of Levi become the tribe of priests? https://www.christianlearning.com/how-the-tribe-of-levi-became-the-tribe-of-priests/
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Tomorrow’s reading: 1 Chronicles 26-28
