OT
4th Cycle.
NT
7th Cycle.
Wednesday 03Aug2022
Judges 1:1 - 7:25 WEB (216 verses)
Thursday 04Aug2022
Acts 10:1 - 12:25 NWB (103 verses)
Wednesday 10Aug2022
Judges 8:1 - 35 WEB (35 verses)
Thursday 11Aug2022
Judges 9:1 - 21:25 World English Bible (373 verses)
Acts 13:1 - 28:31 Good News Bible (568 verses)
My Bible reading has been slow and sporadic for the last nine days, and I have not been able to update this blog until today. In particular, there was a long gap between last Thursday 04August and yesterday 10August when I was busy with travelling and attending to urgent matters.
Since last Wednesday, I have finished reading the book of Judges in the Old Testament, and the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament.
Passage of the day
In chapter 13 of the book of Judges we read about Manoah from the tribe of Dan whose wife was barren. One day, Manoah asked the Angel of the LORD who had appeared to him and his wife to assure them that they will have a child (Samson),
"What is your name?"
The Angel told Manoah that his name was "incomprehensible" (verse 18, WEB).
The KJV renders "incomprehensible" as "wonderful", while the GNB says, "It is a name of wonder".
17 Manoah said to the LORD’s angel, “What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honour you?”
18 The LORD’s angel said to him, “Why do you ask about my name, since it is incomprehensible*?”
Judges 13:17 - 18
World English Bible (British Edition)
If the name of the Angel of the LORD is too wonderful to be mentioned and too diificult for us to comprehend, how much more wonderful and incomprehensible is the Name of the LORD Himself. This could be the reason why nobody knows with certainty the exact pronunciation of the Name of God written in the Tetragrammaton consonants "yod-hey-vav-hey" or YHWH.
Until today, the people of Israel will say "Adonai" (LORD) or "HaShem" (the Name) whenever they come across the Tetragrammaton in the TaNaKh (Torah, Neviim, Khetuvim: Law, Prophets, Writings).
In the New Testament, our Lord Iesus the Anointed One taught His disciples to call God, "the Father".
Brothers and Sisters in the Anointed One. The name of the Angel who appeared to Samson's parents was incomprehensible. It was too wonderful to be mentioned. Likewise, the Name of our God is a Name of Wonder, too wonderful for us to say, and too profound for us to comprehend.
Like our Lord Iesus, let us call God our Father in Heaven.