Page 1112 - The MacArthur Daily Bible

TN_10_MacArthur_Bible_Oct.qxd 8/8/03 16:59 Page 1093

OCTOBER 30
And your offspring from the land of
their captivity;
Jacob shall return, have rest and be at
ease; 3:1 the last days. This phrase refers to this age,
No one shall make him afraid. the time since the First Coming of the Lord Jesus.
28 Do not fear, O Jacob My servant,” says perilous times. “Perilous” is used to describe
the LORD, the savage nature of two demon-possessed
“For I am with you; men (Matt.8:28).The word for “times”had to do
For I will make a complete end of all with epochs rather than clock or calendar time.
the nations Such savage, dangerous eras or epochs will
To which I have driven you, increase in frequency and severity as the return
But I will not make a complete end of of Christ approaches (v. 13). The church age is
you. fraught with these dangerous movements
I will rightly correct you, accumulating strength as the end nears.
For I will not leave you wholly
unpunished.”
6
Psalm 119:105–112 power. And from such people turn away! For
of this sort are those who creep into house-
NUN
O holds and make captives of gullible women
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet loaded down with sins, led away by various
And a light to my path. lusts, always learning and never able to come
7
106 I have sworn and confirmed to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes
8
That I will keep Your righteous and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also
judgments. resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disap-
107 I am afflicted very much;
Revive me, O LORD, according to Your
word.
108 Accept, I pray, the freewill offerings of
my mouth, O LORD, 3:8 Jannes and Jambres. Although their
And teach me Your judgments. names are not mentioned in the Old Testament,
109 My life is continually in my hand, they were likely two of the Egyptian magicians
Yet I do not forget Your law. that opposed Moses (Ex. 7:11,22; 8:7,18,19;
110 The wicked have laid a snare for me, 9:11). According to Jewish tradition, they pre-
Yet I have not strayed from Your tended to become Jewish proselytes, instigat-
precepts. ed the worship of the golden calf, and were
111 Your testimonies I have taken as a killed with the rest of the idolaters (Ex. 32).
heritage forever, Paul’s choice of them as examples may indi-
For they are the rejoicing of my heart. cate the false teachers at Ephesus were prac-
112 I have inclined my heart to perform ticing deceiving signs and wonders.
Your statutes
Forever, to the very end.
9
proved concerning the faith; but they will
Proverbs 28:4
progress no further, for their folly will be mani-
4 Those who forsake the law praise the fest to all, as theirs also was.
wicked, 10 But you have carefully followed my doc-
But such as keep the law contend with trine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffer-
them. ing, love, perseverance, 11 persecutions,
afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch,
2 Timothy 3:1–17
at Iconium, at Lystra—what persecutions I
But know this, that in the last days peril- endured. And out of them all the Lord deliv-
2
3 ous times will come: For men will be lovers ered me. Yes, and all who desire to live godly
12
of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. But
13
proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, evil men and impostors will grow worse and
3
14
unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, worse, deceiving and being deceived. But
slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despis- you must continue in the things which you
ers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, have learned and been assured of, knowing
4
15
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, from whom you have learned them, and that
5 having a form of godliness but denying its from childhood you have known the Holy
1093