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Joel 1:13-14 meaningOctober 15, 2021

Joel addresses the priests, urging them to lament the disaster caused by the locust plague/invading army.

Joel 1:11-12 meaningOctober 15, 2021

Joel addresses the farmers and the vinedressers, urging them to lament the disaster caused by the locust plague of invaders.

Joel 1:8-10 meaningOctober 15, 2021

Joel addresses the worshipers, urging them to lament the disaster caused by the locust plague.

Joel 1:5-7 meaningOctober 15, 2021

Joel addresses the drunkards of Judah, urging them to lament the disaster caused by the locust plague.

Joel 1:2-4 meaningOctober 15, 2021

The prophet Joel calls the nation of Judah to give undivided attention to his message because a locust plague will certainly devastate the land.

Joel 1:1 meaningOctober 15, 2021

The prophet Joel receives a revelation from God for the people of Judah.

Acts 1:21-26 meaningSeptember 24, 2021

Peter states the qualifications for Judas’ replacement: he must be someone who followed Jesus from His baptism until His return to Heaven. Two men are nominated. They pray for God’s guidance, draw straws, and choose a man named Matthias.

Acts 1:15-20 meaningSeptember 24, 2021

As they wait for the Holy Spirit, Peter speaks to the other followers of Jesus. He quotes two Psalms to point to the fact that Judas, the twelfth disciple, is dead, and someone needs to fill his position.

Acts 1:12-14 meaningSeptember 24, 2021

The disciples return to Jerusalem and wait. The eleven apostles are there, as are the women who had closely followed Jesus, and His mother Mary, and His half-brothers.

Acts 1:9-11 meaningSeptember 24, 2021

The disciples watch as Jesus is lifted up into the sky and disappears behind a cloud. Angels tell the disciples that they shouldn’t stand watching, they need to get about the business of obeying what Jesus told them to do, and that Jesus will return one day.

Acts 1:6-8 meaningSeptember 24, 2021

The disciples ask Jesus if He will establish His kingdom in Israel now. Jesus answers that God has set that time in the future, and it is not for them to know it. Their job is to first wait for the Spirit to come to them, then to tell the world about Jesus’s death and resurrection.

Acts 1:1-5 meaningSeptember 24, 2021

Luke begins his second account. His first was about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This account is about the acts of the disciples and the Holy Spirit. Jesus tells His disciples to wait in Jerusalem for the Holy Spirit to come to them.

Amos 2:6-16 meaningSeptember 21, 2021

The LORD pronounces judgment on the inhabitants of Israel because they commit greed, unjust oppression, gross immorality, and idolatry.

Amos 2:4-5 meaningSeptember 21, 2021

The LORD pronounces judgment on the inhabitants of Judah because they rejected His covenantal laws and did not keep His statutes.

Amos 2:1-3 meaningSeptember 21, 2021

The LORD pronounces judgment on the inhabitants of Moab because they burned the bones of the king of Edom to ash.

Numbers 3:40-51 meaningSeptember 4, 2021

Verses 40 – 51 relate what was to take place for the Levites to replace the firstborn as the LORD's possession. First, a census was taken of the number of firstborn males of the non-Levite tribes (verses 40 – 43). Then, the LORD declared the Levites as His. Because the number of non-Levite males was greater than the number of Levite males, a "ransom" was to be paid to the priests (verses 44 – 51).

Numbers 3:38-39 meaningSeptember 4, 2021

Moses and Aaron and his sons are to camp on the east side of the tabernacle. This is symbolic of Christ to come.

Numbers 3:33-37 meaningSeptember 4, 2021

Verses 33 through 37 describe the next group to be considered. It was the family of Merari, the third born son of Levi. As in the previous sections, it recorded their numbers, their placement in the camp, and their duties in service to the priests and the tabernacle.

Numbers 3:27-32 meaningSeptember 4, 2021

The next group considered was the family of Kohath, Levi’s second son. Recorded here are their numbers, their placement in the camp, their appointed leader, and their duties in service to the priests and the tabernacle.

Numbers 3:21-26 meaningSeptember 4, 2021

The families of Gershon are listed: their numbers, their placement in the camp, their appointed leader, and their duties in service to the priests and the tabernacle.

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