Through the Bible in one year notes
Jan 9, 2004 Job: 21 - 23

Job 21
v. 1 - 34
Job speaks again: Listen carefully to what I say, then you may go ahead and mock me. My complaint is not against man. Why do wicked man prosper and the godly struggle. Wicked men build empires that their sons take over. Everything goes right for them. And they tell God that they have no time for Him. Can anyone teach God? How can you comfort me with your words of the wicked when you can see it with your own eyes.

Job 22
v. 1- 30
Elipahaz part 3: You want a list of what you have done wrong, here is the list. (see Bible (v. 1- 11). Yet you say what does God know. Aquaint yourself with Him, repent. Return to God, He will build you up.

Job 23
v. 1 - 17
Job again: I am bitter in complaint. I wish I could present my case before God. Then I would know how he answers me. No matter which way I go he is not there. God has made me weak.


Read tomorrow: Job: 24 - 28

Through the Bible in one year notes
Jan 7, 2004 Job 17 - 20

Job 17
v. 1 - 16
More from Job: God has made me a curse word that men speak, some one that they spit upon. God has broken me. But you men come back if you wish, Maybe one wise man will be among you. I see no hope, only a path to my death.

Job 18
v. 1- 21
Bildad takes his second chance: Why are we the stupid ones, will the earth change how it works just for you? The wicked is trapped like a man in a snare, and destruction comes to him.

Job 19
v. 1 - 29
Job's reply to Bildad: How long you going to keep this up? You have wronged me. And God has wronged me. If I cry I am wronged, I am not heard. He has let his wrath out against me. The people that I paid as servants, they do not even know who I am any more. Even little children hate me. Pity me my friends, God has struck me. But I know my redeemer lives! I shall see God.

Job 20
v. 1 - 29
Zophar part two: The joy of a hypocrite is short Job. Evil is sweet in youth, but it hides till later. It becomes like food in the stomach that goes sour. The wicked man flees, and heaven will go after him.

Read tomorrow: Job: 21 - 23

Through the Bible in one year notes
Jan 7, 2004 Job 14 - 16

Job 14
v. 1 - 22
Job continues: Man is a fleeting thing, and you are eternal, how can you judge me. Trees and plants will regrow when cut down, but man dies and is in the ground, so why do You cut me down? As a mountain is worn down to dirt, so you are wearing me down God. Oh for relief before I die.

Job 15
v. 1- 35
Eliphaz Round 2: Would a wise man speak emptiness. You are crafty with your tongue you are Job. Do you speak directly to God? What wisdom do you have we do not? Man is born of a woman, he is sinful (my notes to my paraphrase: well we got one thing right here). Wicked men fail, plain and simple.

Job 16
v. 1 - 22
Job Again: Listening to you is like listening to hot air. Who are you answering, not my words. We could trade place and maybe I could speak like you do. Instead, I would give strength to you and not tare you down. You are helping God in his attack against me. God has shaken me like a rag doll and set me down as a target for archers who have pierced my heart. Oh God, if I could plea my case before you.

Read tomorrow: Job: 17 - 20

Judge Resigns Over Alleged Abuse Remarks
The problem is that he is right. No, I do not condone men abusing woman, but, too often the woman know how to hit the men's hot button till they blow, then they claim that he abused me and should never have done it. What if the man had hit her hot buttons till she blew? The shoe would be on the other foot then.

Through the Bible in one year notes
Jan 6, 2004 Job 10 - 13

Job 10
v. 1 - 22
Job continues: This is what I would say to God. Do you enjoy inflicting pain. Do you see and feel things like a man does? Remember what you are doing to me when you are done. Why have you brought me to life, leave me alone so I can get peace before I fade in death to darkness.

Job 11
v. 1- 20
Zophar speaks to Job: God, can you tell this guy what he has done wrong? Job, can you understand God? Are you higher than heaven and lower than hell? If you would ask forgiveness he would forgive you and you could go on. Other wise you are a sinner.

Job 12
v. 1 - 25
Job replies - again!: Look guys, I am not stupid, I know as much as you do and I am innocent.You mock me with your accusations. God, who holds all life in His hand is the cause of this.

Job 13
v. 1 - 28
Job continues some more: Why do you speak deceit in defence of God. God, can you take this awfulness off of me then call me so we can talk? Please scare me no more.

Read tomorrow: Job: 14 - 16

Yahoo! News - 'Dirty Bomb' Threat Was Big New Year's Eve Worry
Interesting story. But they ask why we are as a people are not concerned. There were too many cry wolfs in the past. I cannot live like they are going to kill me. God will protect me till my time, and then I will go home.

Britney Spears Annuls Brief Las Vegas Marriage | Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage:

"'Plaintiff Spears lacked understanding of her actions to the extent that she was incapable of agreeing to marriage because Plaintiff and Defendant did not know each other's likes and dislikes, each other's desires to have or not have children and each other's desires as to state of residency,' the court papers said. "

So let me translate this to English so the rest of us can understand. Though she has known this guy since childhood, she has the IQ of a grapefruit because she does not know any thing about him at all.
I think that sums it up real well.
Second question is why do I care?

Through the Bible in one year notes
Jan 5, 2004 Job 6 - 9

Job 6
v. 1 - 30
Job replies to Eliphaz: He proclaims that he does not know why God has done this to him. And he wishes that God would crush him, even thinks God would take delight in it. And you who have to comfort me, comfort me do not blame me. Teach me where I am wrong if you will, but do not blame me falsely.

Job 7
v. 1- 21
Job continues: Man on earth is like the servant man who seeks out shade when he should be working or a hired man looking for his wages. I have had my time, it is done, I seek the shade, the death would be like a payment. My days go by so fast and seem to be hopeless. He then asks God how long it will be before God does not pay attention to him, till he can live in peace.

Job 8
v. 1 - 22
Bildad makes his reply to Job: Look Job, God puishes the sinfull and blesses the righteous. Just like a plant will wither when cut off, so will man when he cuts himself off from God. So is the way of God Job.

Job 9
v. 1 - 35
Job replies back again: Look, I know I am innocent of anything that God can try to blame me for. God is so strong, how can I stand up to Him? I despise this life of mine. God allows the wicked to have the earth. God is not a man. I cannot have my day in court with him, there is no mediator with him. Take the rod of pain away from me God! I wish to speak without fear of more pain.

Read tomorrow: Job: 10 - 13

Lycos News | LSU Wins Sugar Bowl and National Championship
The problem with the system cannot be fixed with tinkering with the format. If the NCAA is serious about having a national championship they need to go to a playoff series like the Basketball does. Dang, we nearly have enough Bowl games to pull it off, don't we?

Through the Bible in one year notes
Jan 4, 2004 Job 1 - 5

Job 1
v. 1 - 5
We are introduced to Job, a man of wealth and status. But though he seems to love God, he seems to have an obsession that one of his children may have sinned in their times of worship to God.

v. 6 - 12
Over to heaven (it seems) and The Adversary (Satan) is their, and God asks him (as if He had to) where have you been. God points out that Job is upright and Satan says he can bring him down. God allows it. One set of notes that I read states that he was tempted not because he was unrighteous, but because of it and to give him a deeper in sight to God. I will have to ponder on that. Still notice, that God does not give the trials, it is the Accuser.

v. 13 - 22
All that Job owns, and his family (except for his wife we will find) are taken from him by various means, He has lost everything. Job says, I had nothing, God gave it to me, God can take it away, Bless God. Notice those are Job's words. He does not know who really took it all away.

Job 2
v. 1- 8
Back in heaven, comparing notes again, and Satan says, you would not let me make him sick, just take stuff away. God says OK, have at it but spare his life. So Satan makes Job ill with boils all over his body.

v. 9 - 10
Job's wife shows her spirtuality (or lack of it). "Curse God and die" she says. Nope, says Job. I will not. I accepted prosperity from Him,I accept adversity as well.

v. 11-13
His friends come. And join him and at first do not recognize him. They sit with him in silence waiting for him to speak, an ancient Jewish custom I have read. They were covenant friends, and they were there for him, not just people that he knew.

Job 3
v. 1 - 26
Job's First Speech - Job does not curse God. But he does curse a lot of things. The day he was born for starters. Next the fact he was born live instead of a still birth. Then the question. Why will those who seek death never get it, and those who seek life seem to die. And clearly, though not the reason that he has the trials, what he fears has come on him. Satan will use what you fear to torment you.

Job 4
v. 1 - 22
The first friend of Job replies. He says that Job has done well in council of others, so listen to this. You are being punished because you sinned (again, he does not have the inside information we do). He even tries to say to Job, you think you are more righteous than God?

Job 5
v. 1 - 27
He continues his speech. God sends the rains and stops the crafty people. He saves the needy. You should be happy that God is correcting you, do not despise it. Accept this so that you can go on with your life.

Read tomorrow: Job: 6 - 9

Through the Bible in one year notes
Jan 3, 2003 Genesis 8-11

Genesis 8
v. 1 - 19
God remembered that Noah was in the ark 9v. 1). Did He ever really forget? And God stopped the storm from raging. And formed a wind to push the waters together so that the land would be able to form. Noah tests the area several times by relasing birds and then he opened the ark and saw the land was dry, but waited another month before God told him it was safe to venture out. He did and all the animals with him.

v. 20 - 22
Noah's first act, build an alter and offer the blood sacrafices that he knew would please God. And God says he will not destroy the earth because of man's sins anymore. God also establishes here, seedtime and harvest, winter and summer, cold and heat, night and day. Patterns that will never change.

Genesis 9
v. 1 - 17
In v. 4 God clearly establishes that man can eat meat, just meat that does not have the blood still in it. v. 5 and on say that anything, man or animal, that slays innocent blood of a man will have to justify it before God. You see, life is in the blood, and God will not allow blood to flow for no reason at all. God gives life, it is not man's job to take it away. And man is told to go forth, be fruitful and multiply. Then God states to Noah that he will never destroy the earth. For a sign, he put a warriors sign up, a bow (as in bow and arrow). This is the first mention of covenant in the Bible.

v. 18 - 28
We are told of Noah changing professions here, being a farmer, and getting drunk in his tent. One of his sons saw him told the other two brothers and they covered him. For some unclear reason, Noah curses not the son, but the son's son.

Genesis 10
Chapter 10 is a general genealogies. These genealogical are important to the Jew, they establish who you are. But to a Christian, they establish the bloodline. That will be important to us.

Genesis 11
v. 1 - 9
The people want to make a name for themselves, not for God. Their selfishness is what got them spread. God even says that man can if he puts his mind to it, do anything. But they are scattered and given different languages.

v 10. - 26
We go back to Shem, Noah's son, and trace the bloodline down to Terah, father of Abram.

v. 27 - 32
Final tying up of Terah's life.

Tomorrows Reading: Job 1- 5

Through the Bible in one year notes
Jan2, 2003 Genesis 4-7

Quick note on yesterday reading, chapter 3 v. 21, the Lord made clothes for them and they were not plants This is the start, the blood has to be shed for sin to be covered.


Genesis 4
v 1 - 15
Cane and Able born. Able, the second born, took care of animals, and Cain, the eldest, was a farmer. When they came to sacrifice, notice two things, there is no blood in Cain's sacrifice and he did not bring the best. There is a good chance that the blood was not necessary in this case, it was to the Lord but not for sin. But, he did not offer his best. We are to offer our best when we offer things to the Lord. We are not to offer second best. For that reason God was displeased. Cain got angry that his brother got the best from God, but rather than seek out what was the matter with him, he figured he could get rid of the problem and God would have to like him. Wrong choice. And when God punishes him, he again weasels out.
v. 16 - 24
A trip through Cain's family line.

v. 25 - 26
Eve starts the bloodline here that will eventually lead to Jesus. The one who helped in the sin will help to bring the deliver eventually.

Genesis 5
Here is the bloodline of the Adam to Noah, the start of the redemption.

Genesis 6
v. 1 - 8
It is unclear the 'Sons of God" I tend to believe that it would be Godly men from the line of Seth. It could mean fallen angels, but that would mean that angels could mate with men and that seems to be against what God would plan (I think). It does not matter a lot, as what ever came of such a mating was about to be killed in the flood as God saw that all was evil. That is except for one man, NOAH.

v. 9 - 22
Noah is instructed to build the ark. And to bring two of every animal on to the ark. Also to bring food for the animals as well(v. 21).

Genesis 7
God modifies the rules for the animals to bring on the boat. Mostly for sacrifice reasons. One thing interesting here. Rain has never been mentioned before in the Bible, yet when Noah enters the ark it rains AND the grounds open up and water floods the earth. But Noah and his family are safe.

Read tomorrow: Genesis 8 - 11

Chronlogical Through the Bible in one year notes
Jan1, 2003 Genesis 1-3

Genesis 1
Ten times (the number of perfection) God said, and seven times (the number of God), God saw that it was good. The Bible clearly states what has happened. Does that mean that these are to be taken as literal days? Does that mean there was light before there was a sun? I do not know what it all means. But I have faith that it happened as the Bible wrote it. And the progression is perfect. You need water for plants, you need plants for animals to eat. One thing I noticed though. Before the fall, man was a vegetarian. After the fall things changed.

Genesis 2
Other than the beginning of two, where the sabath is defined, Chapter 2 is just a retelling of Chapter 1 from a different direction. Notice man was doing his job of dominion over the animals. He named them, the one who rules gets to name. But a helper was needed for man. And the triune God chose to take a part of man, the female side he was created with, and make a separate being.

Genesis 3
The serpent was the Devil in disguise. He planted a seed of doubt in Eve's mind. Why did Eve respond with something that was a stretch of God's teaching. Did Adam not teach her properly, did she exegerate? The tree was good for wisdom, but the type of wisdom that wold make man independant of God, and that brought about the death, when we think we do not need God we are spirtualy dead. Adam did not need to take the food, but he did, listening to his wife (God even says that) instead of God. And here we have the first example of passing the buck. Adam blames God (the woman you gave me) and Eve. Eve blames the serpent. The serpent, actually Satan, get the first prophecy of Christ's coming said to him, Eve gets told there will be pain in childbirth, and that she will loose co-leadership with her husband and desire to rule over him. And Adam gets the worst, life without parole in working the earth and never having enough. Lastly they get kicked out of the garden so they do not eat the fruit that let them live forever in their sins.

Jan 2 reading Genesis 4 - 7

Bob's Brain by Robert Morton
If you ever want to look at my serious side.

CNN.com - 2-year-old model seeks lost wages - Dec. 26, 2003
Sometimes I cannot belive the news. Look at who is sueing. Not the kid, he got hurt, the money grubing mom. Paul Harvey had it right calling them the sewers.

Interesting quote:

"If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?"
Scott Adams

I did not write this, but on this Christmas Day, it echos my sentiments. I heard Paul Harvey read it years ago...

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Now the man to whom I'm going to introduce you was not a scrooge, he was a kind, decent, mostly good man. Generous to his family, upright in his dealings with other men. But he just didn't believe all that incarnation stuff which the churches proclaim at Christmas Time. It just didn't make sense and he was too honest to pretend otherwise. He just couldn't swallow the Jesus Story, about God coming to Earth as a man.
"I'm truly sorry to distress you," he told his wife, "but I'm not going with you to church this Christmas Eve." He said he'd feel like a hypocrite. That he'd much rather just stay at home, but that he would wait up for them. And so he stayed and they went to the midnight service.
Shortly after the family drove away in the car, snow began to fall. He went to the window to watch the flurries getting heavier and heavier and then went back to his fireside chair and began to read his newspaper. Minutes later he was startled by a thudding sound. Then another, and then another. Sort of a thump or a thud.
At first he thought someone must be throwing snowballs against his living room window.
But when he went to the front door to investigate he found a flock of birds huddled miserably in the snow. They'd been caught in the storm and, in a desperate search for shelter, had tried to fly through his large landscape window. Well, he couldn't let the poor
creatures lie there and freeze, so he remembered the barn where his children stabled their pony. That would provide a warm shelter, if he could direct the birds to it.
Quickly he put on a coat, galoshes, tramped through the deepening snow to the barn. He opened the doors wide and turned on a light, but the birds did not come in. He figured food would entice them in. So he hurried back to the house, fetched bread crumbs, sprinkled them on the snow, making a trail to the yellow-lighted wide open doorway of the stable. But to his dismay, the birds ignored the bread crumbs, and continued to flap around helplessly in the snow.
He tried catching them. He tried shooing them into the barn by walking around them waving his arms. Instead, the scattered in every direction, except into the warm, lighted barn. And then, he realized, that they were afraid of him. To them, he reasoned, I am a strange and terrifying creature. If only I could think of some
way to let them know that they can trust me. That I am not trying to hurt them, but to help them. But how? Because any move he made tended to frighten them, confuse them. They just would not follow. They would not be led or shooed because they feared him.
"If only I could be a bird," he thought to himself, "and mingle with them and speak their language. Then I could tell them not to be afraid. Then I could show them the way to safe, warm ... to the safe warm barn. But I would have to be one of them so they could see, and hear and understand."
At that moment the church bells began to ring. The sound reached his ears above the sounds of the wind. And he stood there listening to the bells - Adeste Fidelis - listening to the bells pealing the glad tidings of Christmas. And he sank to his knees in the snow.

Merry Christmas

Crossing the Delaware too dangerous for reenactment
Good thing Washington did not call off the first one!

Yahoo! News - Ventura's MSNBC Show Placed on Indefinite Hiatus
I am sorry to see this happen. Though I have not seen his show, I have seen his commentary for MSNBC and have had respect for the man. He is not some "dumb wrestler" as some would make him to be. In fact, for those guys to do what they do and not get hurt, I am sure not many are dumb at all. Needless to say, like many, I do not always agree with his politics (though he is closer to me than many), I have respect for the man.

Yahoo! News - Patriots Aiming for Home-Field Advantage
Nice to see my team is favored, I will be glad when the game is over and we have won the game though.