My Bible reading plan is pretty straight forward. Pick up the Bible. Start at the first page. Read about five chapters in the morning. Keep going until you get to the last page. Find a different Bible. Start at the first page. Read five chapters in the morning. When you get to the end, find a new Bible. Repeat.<\/p>\n
Today, I started the gospel according to John in the “American Patriot’s Bible<\/a>,” New King James edition. In chapter 1, you get these verses:<\/p>\n vs. 38+39 Then Jesus turned, and seeing them following, said to them, \u201cWhat do you seek?\u201d<\/span><\/span>They said to Him, \u201cRabbi\u201d (which is to say, when translated, Teacher), \u201cwhere are You staying?\u201d<\/span>\u00a0He said to them, \u201cCome and see.\u201d<\/span><\/em> They came and saw where He was staying, and remained with Him that day (now it was about the tenth hour). (Emphasis added)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n vs. 46 And Nathanael said to him, \u201cCan anything good come out of Nazareth?\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Philip said to him, \u201cCome and see.\u201d\u00a0(Emphasis added)<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n It struck me that the words “Come and see” were recorded by John. It reminded me of another writing of John, the Revelation given to him we find as the last book in the New Testament. There we read:<\/p>\n Rev. 6:1\u00a0Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals; and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a voice like thunder, \u201cCome and see.\u201d<\/p>\n Rev. 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, \u201cCome!\u201d And let him who hears say, \u201cCome!\u201d And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.<\/p>\n Rev. 22:20\u00a0\u00a0<\/sup>He who testifies to these things says, \u201cSurely I am coming quickly.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’m thinking a word study on John’s use of the word “come” and “come and see” may be in my future. Possible sermon idea? I wonder if the phrase is used much in the three epistles we have John wrote. More digging to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My Bible reading plan is pretty straight forward. Pick up the Bible. Start at the first page. Read about five chapters in the morning. Keep going until you get to the last page. Find a different Bible. Start at the first page. Read five chapters in the morning. When you get to the end, find … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-brhythm","4":"post-1283","6":"format-standard","7":"category-christianity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}