Tag: heritage
Cover to Cover Reading: 1 Samuel 12:1-14:52 Focus: 1 Samuel 12:1-15 We constantly say, “learn from the past…learn from the mistakes of history…” Yet, how often do we repeat the mistakes of the past? Most of the time, we don’t realise it till it’s too late. Over and over, we make the same mistakes that our parents made, that our grandparents made, that people keep making throughout history. We just don’t learn out lesson and we continue to just putting ourselves into the same, difficult, trying situations.
Cover to Cover Reading: 1 Chronicles 4:1-6:47 Focus: 1 Chronicles 6:1-30 In the beginning of Chronicles there is a genealogy which sets the historical basis of the kings. Interestingly, there is also another genealogy, but this time tracing the historical basis of the priesthood and those that serve in God’s temple. The genealogy traces all the way from Levi, the 3rd son of Jacob (or Israel), through their various descendants. A quick read over the genealogy may miss some key elements, particularly, given the purpose of Chronicles of recording the national history of Israel.
