Week Five: Rerun

We’re taking a break in worship to celebrate Palm Sunday, Holy Week and Easter, so you have 15 days to complete the readings for these five days. Another way to look at this break is time to catch up if you are behind. Bible in 90 Days grace as it were. Complete these readings by Sunday, April 7, when we resume sermons and classes.

 

Historical Reruns / 1-2 Chronicles

The Bible in 90 Days goes into reruns this week…

1 and 2  Chronicles retells everything we have just read, beginning with Adam.

Now, much of the early history  is retold by genealogies (Adam to Abraham and the 12 Tribes of Israel.)

But from King David’s reign and King Solomon’s building of the Temple through all the kings of Judah and the Babylonian exile, it is a retelling of what we have just read in 1&2 Samuel and 1&2 Kings. It’s just told from a different perspective.

Here are some things to notice along the way.

1.Knowing now that the 12 tribes divided into a Southern Kingdom and a Northern Kingdom, from which perspective is this retelling told?

2.Among the things chronicled, the tasks of those responsible for all aspects of worship are outlined, including that of the musicians.

Bonus: Who had the task of baking the offering bread?

Returning from Exile / Ezra-Nehemiah

The books of Ezra and Nehemiah record the return to Jerusalem of some of the Israelites from Babylonian exile to begin rebuilding the Temple under a decree from the Persian ruler Cyrus. Each book, tells the story of the rebuilding of the Temple and the reordering of community from the perspective of a leader over the work.

Here are some things to notice along the way.

1.Even before a structure was rebuilt, an altar was constructed so they could return to worship.

2.People who remembered the first Temple were brought to tears when they saw just the foundation laid of the second Temple.

Bonus: Did you see the first biblical reference to a treasurer?