Welcome to the Pauline Family's "Year of the Bible"! I'm reading the Bible clear through this year, and I invite you to read along with me. But first, let us pray:
Everlasting Father,
All time belongs to you, and all the ages. In signs, in songs, in words of promise, you reassured your chosen ones, “I am with you; fear not.” You taught them through the prophets to trust that your saving deeds were not limited to the past.
When Jesus came, he fulfilled “all that was written in the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
The Church has found him everywhere in these same holy books.
Help me to find Jesus in my reading today, to listen to him, and to follow him with all my heart.
Amen.
Today's chapters are Ezekiel 47-48 and Daniel 1.
Ezekiel's Temple vision continues with water, water, everywhere: all of it coming from the Temple itself. This water is the source of life for the whole land, nourishment and health and healing. Now it is clear that Ezekiel is not describing a new construction site in the Holy Land, but abundant gifts from Heaven itself. Jesus will speak of his own Heart in terms that sound suspiciously like Ezekiel's "river of living water" (see John 7: 37-39).
Daniel is another prophetic book set in during the time of the Babylonian exile. It has a complicated history, complicated stories, and an often complicated apocalyptic style, but it includes prophetic themes that will be extremely important (and influential) in the New Testament. And, really, what would the Bible be without the adventure of Daniel in the Lion's Den?!
Start reading Ezekiel here and start Daniel here.
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