SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/6/2018 9:56 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
“The Assassination Plotted”
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Acts 25:1-5
Message of the verses: “1 Festus then,
having arrived in the province, three days later went up to Jerusalem from
Caesarea. 2 And the chief priests and the leading men of the Jews brought
charges against Paul, and they were urging him, 3 requesting a concession against Paul, that he
might have him brought to Jerusalem (at the same time, setting an ambush to kill him on the way). 4
Festus then answered that Paul was being kept in custody at Caesarea and that
he himself was about to leave shortly. 5 “Therefore," he said, "let
the influential men among you go there with me, and if there is anything wrong
about the man, let them prosecute him."”
Felix left a mess, and so a new governor was appointed,
Festus who had to come in and try and fix the mess that Felix left. The Jews hated Rome, and even though a new
governor was appointed this problem would not be fixed as in a few years the
Jews would come out against Rome and the Romans would eventually destroy
Jerusalem and the temple similarly as the Babylonians did 656 years earlier in
586 B. C.
Felix moved slowly with Paul’s case, putting it aside as he
wanted money from Paul, and also he wanted to listen to what Paul was telling
him about the Lord Jesus Christ. Festus
on the other hand was moving faster a mere three days after arriving in Judah “he
went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.” He
wanted to meet with the Jewish leaders and of course Paul’s case came up. The Jews would give him much trouble as they
would lie to him as they did to Felix, desiring to have Paul executed.
The Jewish leaders had a plan, and that plan was to have
Festus bring Paul up to Jerusalem and then on the way, just like they wanted to
do before they would ambush Paul and kill him on the way. Although Paul’s nephew was not involved in
this it was through the providence of God, Festus must have seen through this
scheme of theirs and would not succumb to their wishes.
As I stated in our
last SD I see some things in our countries life today that are similar to what
the Jews were trying to do to Paul.
There was a witch hunt then just as there is one today, and both are
against innocence people. I have stated
on different occasions that I have two things to say about the left, and that
is I have both good news and bad news for them.
The good news is that they will eventually win, and the bad news is they
will eventually win.
Festus, not wanting to move Paul said that he wanted some
influential men from the Jews to come to Caesarea and bring their charges
against Paul.
Answer to yesterday’s
Bible question: “Badger’s skins” (Exodus
36:19).
Today’s Bible
question: “What groans and travails in
pain?”
Answer in our next SD.
9/6/2018 10:27 AM
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