1st Kings 15



  Good Tuesday morning to each of you. I hope this letter finds you and yours well! The last wall got painted at the house on The Little Hundred Acre Wood yesterday. Today, there will be trim paint, detail, and cut-in work. At last, we are in the home stretch! Well, let’s get to The Daily Bible Challenge while the coffee is still hot!


  We are in 1st Kings 15 today, and we will hear how there were many kings in rapid succession between the north and south, Israel to the north and Judah to the South. We finally get a good king in here as ASA did well in the sight of the Lord! But there was a whole string of bad ones along the way! Remember to keep this in context. We need to ask who wrote it, who was the audience it was written to, and when it was written. I won’t always give you the answers because I want you to dig in a little for yourself. I don’t want you to just start listening to just anyone on the internet, test what you hear against the Bible itself, and then dig in with some AI, like Grok, for the who, when, and so on!


  After all, I am not trying to get you to think I am smart, or what I theorize; I am trying to get you to start a relationship with God by digging into what He says. It is my hope that the more you dig into this Bible, the more you will want to learn about God. I am fascinated by how God seems so different in the Old and New Testaments. Yet it is the same God, just different facets of His personality. He is three parts that make a whole. Like an egg has three parts! So does God; The Father, Son & Holy Spirit.


  If you are totally skeptical, why don’t you do some research on other skeptics that dug into the Bible and accidentally became believers, like Lee Strobel and some old guy named C.S. Lewis! There are many, many more, but those two are a good start! Your questions and comments are always welcome via PM/DM.


  Talk with you soon!


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