SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/12/2026 9:52
AM
My
Worship Time Focus: PT-4“Judgment
Affirms God’s Prophecies”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Nahum
1:15
Message of the verse: “15 Behold, upon the mountains The feet of him who brings good
news, Who proclaims peace! Oh Judah, keep your feasts, Perform your vows. For no more
Will the wicked man pass through you; He is utterly cut off.”
“Behold,
on the mountains the feet of him who proclaims good news, Who announce peace!
Celebrate your feasts, O Judah; Pay your vows.
For never again will the vile one pass through you; He is cut off completely.” (NASB)
I did not get too far in yesterday mornings SD, and I
hope that I can get a little more done in looking at this verse this morning.
“As
pilgrimage feasts, these three festivals were the major events of Israel’s
yearly calendar that the people would observe to commemorate God’s
deliverance. They worshiped the Lord for
His past redemption of Israel from Egypt and the wilderness (cf. Exodus 12:14;
13:3; Deut. 16:1-8; 2 Kings 23:21-23; 2 Chronicles 35:1-19; Ezra 6:19-21), His
present provision of food (cf. Exodus 34:22; Deut. 16:9-12), and His future
salvation and restoration of the nation (cf. Deut. 16:13-15; Zech 14:16-19).” I will now look at these three series of
verses in the order they are mentioned above, but will skip the very long
sections.
(cf. Exodus 12:14; 13:3; Deut. 16:1-8;
2 Kings 23:21-23; Ezra 6:19-21)
“14 And this day shall be for you a
memorial, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout
your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an ordinance
for ever.”
“3 And Moses said to the people, “Remember this
day when you went out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, for by
strength of hand the LORD brought you out of this place. No
leavened bread shall be eaten.”
“1 ¶ “Observe the month of Abib, and keep the
Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the
LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night. 2 Therefore you shall sacrifice the
Passover to the LORD your God, from the flock and the
herd, in the place where the LORD will choose to put his name. 3 You shall not eat leavened bread with it;
seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, that is, the bread of
affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), that you
may remember the day when you came out of the land of
Egypt all the days of your life. 4 And no yeast shall be seen among you in all
your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the meat which
you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until the
morning. 5 You shall not sacrifice the
Passover within any of your towns which the LORD your God gives you; 6 but at the place where the LORD your
God will choose to make his name, there you shall sacrifice the Passover in the
evening, at the setting of the sun, at the time you came out of
Egypt. 7 And you shall roast and eat it
in the place which the LORD your God will choose, and in the morning you
shall turn and go to your tents. 8 For
six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall
be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God. You shall do no work on
it.”
“21 And the king commanded all the people, saying,
“Keep the Passover to the LORD your God, as it is written
in this Book of the Covenant.” 22 Surely
there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges who
judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel
and the kings of Judah. 23 But in
year eighteen of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the LORD in
Jerusalem.”
“19 And the returned exiles kept the Passover on the
fourteenth day of the first month. 20 For the priests and the Levites had purified
themselves together; all of them were clean. And they slaughtered
the Passover lambs for all the returned exiles, and their brethren the
priests, and themselves. 21 And the
children of Israel who had returned from the captivity, and everyone who
separated themselves from the filthiness of the nations of the
land to seek the LORD God of Israel, ate the Passover together.”
His present provision of food (cf.
Exodus 34:22; Deut. 16:9-12)
22 And you shall observe the Feast of
Weeks for yourself, the first-fruits of the wheat harvest, and the
Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end.”
“9 You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin
to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the
sickle to the standing grain. 10 And you
shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with the
tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the
LORD your God blesses you. 11 And you
shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your
daughter, and your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is
within your towns, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are
among you, at the place where the LORD your God will choose to make his
name there. 12 And you shall remember that
you have been a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful and obey these
statutes.”
His future salvation and restoration of
the nation (cf. Deut. 16:13-15; Zech 14:16-19)
“13 You shall observe the Feast of
Tabernacles for seven days when you gathered grain from your
threshing floor and your wine. 14 And
you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, and your
male servant and your female servant and the Levite, and the stranger and the
fatherless and the widow, who is within your towns. 15 You shall keep a feast for seven
days to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD will
choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and
in all the work of your hands, therefore you will surely be joyful.”
“16 ¶ And it will come to pass that everyone
who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem even will go
up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of
hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 17 And it will be whoever does not come up of the
families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of
hosts, even there will be no rain on them. 18 And if the family of Egypt does not go
up and come in, that they have no rain; they will have the plague
with which the LORD will strike the nations who do not come up to
keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 19 This
will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the
nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.”
“In celebrating the salvation of the Lord, the
Israelites arranged their entire lives around their worship of God, recognizing
their dependence on His grace. Nahum
exhorted Israel to commit themselves to this way of living because God’s salvation
was so sure.”
Now as I read this last paragraph I
have to believe that believers in the Church era should be doing the very same
thing and not, like in our day think more about “stuff.”
My
Steps of Faith for Today: I think that this highlighted portion above
is a good step of faith for me today.
Spiritual
Meaning for My life Today: Think more about serving the Lord in a way
that will please Him and bring glory to Him.
“Do you
love life? Then do not squander Time,
For that’s the stuff life is made of.” (Benjamin Franklin)
“So
teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. (Psalm 90:12)
This is
from Dr. David Jeremiah’s Words of Wisdom that I have forgotten to add for a
couple of days, but this one certainly goes along with what this SD is about.
1/12/2026
10:21 AM
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