July 9 / Hosea 5:15-8:14

Hosea 5:15-8:14 Dear RTB’ers, Hosea, continued. I quoted today’s first verse yesterday: I will return again to My place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face, and in their distress earnestly seek Me. (5:15) So naturally the first thing the Israelites do today is to seek Him: “Come, let’s return to the LORD. …

July 8 / Hosea 4:1-5:14

Hosea 4:1-5:14 Dear RTB’ers, Hosea, continued. God condemns Israel for their earthly sins (see Hosea 4:2) and for their worship of false gods (see Hosea 4:12-13). My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge… (4:6a), a well-known, oft-cited verse. Fundamentally, it’s what RTB is all about. From its beginning some 15 years ago RTB has …

July 6 / Hosea 1,3

Hosea 1,3 Dear RTB’ers, Hosea. Like Amos, Hosea was prophesying to the Northern Kingdom, Israel. Unlike Amos (and unlike all the rest of the major and minor prophets), Hosea was from the north and was speaking to his kinsmen. STS has us reading chapters 1 and 3 today, skipping chapter 2 until tomorrow, which is …

July 5 / Amos 8:4-9:15

Amos 8:4-9:15 Dear RTB’ers, Amos, the end. Judgment and redemption. The whole of today’s reading is judgment, until we get to the last three verses. Amos repeats one of his central themes in today’s first three verses – greed, dishonesty, and subjugation of the poor by the wealthy, followed by the horrible extent of God’s …

July 4 / Amos 7:1-8:3

Amos 7:1-8:3 Dear RTB’ers, In contrast to previous days’ readings about judgments against Israel and Judah and their neighbors, today chapter 7 is relatively straightforward – visions of locusts (as happened to the Egyptians), fire, and a plumb line. (Of particular interest to me…) He was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning …

July 2024 Readings

Date Reading(s) Verses 01-Jul Amos 1-2 31 02-Jul Amos 3-4 28 03-Jul Amos 5-6 41 04-Jul Amos 7:1-8:3 20 05-Jul Amos 8:4-9:15 25 06-Jul Hosea 1,3 16 07-Jul Hosea 2 23 08-Jul Hosea 4:1-5:14 33 09-Jul Hosea 5:15-8:14 42 10-Jul Hosea 9-10 32 11-Jul Hosea 11-12 26 12-Jul Hosea 13-14 25 13-Jul Psalms 13-14 13 …