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Friday
First Lesson
Ezekiel 7:10-15, 23-27
10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth;
the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them
shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither
shall there be wailing for them.
12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer
rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude
thereof.
13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although
they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude
thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen
himself in the iniquity of his life.
14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none
goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within:
he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that
is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the
city is full of violence.
24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they
shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the
strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.
25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall
be none.
26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon
rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the
law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
27 The
king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation,
and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I
will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts
will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
1st Lesson Questions:
Ezekiel 7:10-15,23-27. Does this passage describe today? How so? Do I believe that God will judge mankind? (V. 27) Does my life reflect my belief? RESOLVE.
Second Lesson
John 2:13-25
13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and
doves, and the changers of money sitting:
15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them
all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured
out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;
16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence;
make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal
of thine house hath eaten me up.
18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign showest
thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and
in three days I will raise it up.
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in
building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered
that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture,
and the word which Jesus had said.
23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast
day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which
he did.
24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew
all men,
25 And
needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was
in man.
2nd Lesson Questions:
John 2:13-25. Does God's House need to be cleansed today? Of what? Jesus knew what was in man. (V. 25) What was in man? What IS in man? RESOLVE.