Short Stories and Devotional Letters to Grandchildren on Every Book and Chapter of the Bible
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Amos
Amos is a doomsday prophetic transcript. Amos articulated his dire warnings over 2,760 years ago.
Joel
Joel was a prophet who God gave an epiphany. Joel’s vocational call from God was to be a prophet to His special chosen people who were living in Israel’s southern kingdom which was called Judah.
Hosea
Hosea is a chapter in the autobiography of a middle class merchant’s son. Hosea means ‘salvation’.
Daniel
Daniel is a narrative of miraculous incidents and prophetical dreams. The Daniel Book has been ascribed to an Israelite people group exile whose name was Daniel.
Ezekiel
The Ezekiel Book is made up of three distinct discourses and was scribed over a 22 year period.
Lamentations
Lamentations is a series of five laments written as poems. Jeremiah wrote the laments. The laments at some point in time were combined into a single piece of prose called Lamentations.
Jeremiah
The Jeremiah Book was compiled from forty or so years of annotations that were made by an Israelite people group prophet whose name was Jeremiah.
Isaiah
Isaiah is the anthology work of a prominent Old Testament prophet evangelist whose name is Isaiah.
Song of Songs
Song of Songs is an ode about a guy and a gal who are madly in love with each other. Solomon is who scribed the Song of Songs sonnet.
Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes is the recorded words that were spoken by an old guy in front of an assembly – as the meaning of Ecclesiastes is ‘the speaker to the assembly’.
Proverbs
Proverbs is a collated collection of contrasting couplets. The majority of Proverbs Book’s axioms are quotes from Solomon’s notes on living a pragmatic life.
Psalms
Psalms is an assemblage of five books of 150 poems, songs and chants.
Job
Job is an example of what may happen when God allows a person to be caught in Satan’s crosshairs.
Esther
The book of Esther’s 10 chapters are specific for Jews. Before someone put it into a written narrative, it was orally passed on from one generation of Jews to the next generation of Jews.
Nehemiah
Nehemiah is composed of memoir exerts. Nehemiah Book began circulation around 430 B.C.
Ezra
The book of Ezra recounts what took place after Cyrus – who was a Persian king, gave Zerubbabel permission in 538 B.C. to lead a group of 42,360 of God’s specially chosen people from the land of Babylonia where they have been living as exiles back to their homes in the city of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles is the second half of Ezra’s daily affairs and annuals tome. Ezra scribed his historical chronicles somewhere around 450 B.C.
1 Chronicles
1 Chronicles is the first half of an historical chronicle. Chronicles in Hebrew means ‘the affairs of the days or of the years’. The Chronicles Book’s theological theme is that absolute obedience to God’s life mandates will lead to divine blessings.