DAY 84 Read Joshua 10 through 12.
Today's reading condenses into three chapters the account of Joshua's campaigns to conquer the whole of Canaan. It includes the famous episode of the long day.
Memory gem: "There was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the Lord fought for Israel" (Joshua 10:14).
Thought for today:
We owe our present calendar to the Romans, as is clearly shown by the Latin names given to the twelve months. Although several different systems of calendation have been and still are used in the world, yet the continuity of the cycle of the seven-day week has been preserved without disruption, and in perfect synchronization by nations around the world.
In Bible times the Jews had a sacred or ecclesiastical year which began in the month Abib, about our April, and civil year which began six months later in the fall. New Year's day might fall on any day of the week, just as our January 1 may come on Sunday, Monday, or any other day of the week. The seven-day cycle of days has come down to us unaltered from the beginning of history. It has been unaffected by the many changes that have otherwise taken place in the calendar.
Dates may change; new calendars, new calendar arrangements come and go, but they have not broken the weekly cycle. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow are established in their natural order: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday go on their way, unmovably and fixedly. As the seventh-day Sabbath is in this changeless weekly cycle, men have never lost track of it.
Note: Nothing in the record of the long day indicates any disruption of the weekly cycle. The day is measured by the complete period between one sunset and the next. The extension of daylight several extra hours simply delayed the beginning of the next day; therefore, the order of the days of the week was not altered.
Today's reading condenses into three chapters the account of Joshua's campaigns to conquer the whole of Canaan. It includes the famous episode of the long day.
Memory gem: "There was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the Lord fought for Israel" (Joshua 10:14).
Thought for today:
We owe our present calendar to the Romans, as is clearly shown by the Latin names given to the twelve months. Although several different systems of calendation have been and still are used in the world, yet the continuity of the cycle of the seven-day week has been preserved without disruption, and in perfect synchronization by nations around the world.
In Bible times the Jews had a sacred or ecclesiastical year which began in the month Abib, about our April, and civil year which began six months later in the fall. New Year's day might fall on any day of the week, just as our January 1 may come on Sunday, Monday, or any other day of the week. The seven-day cycle of days has come down to us unaltered from the beginning of history. It has been unaffected by the many changes that have otherwise taken place in the calendar.
Dates may change; new calendars, new calendar arrangements come and go, but they have not broken the weekly cycle. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow are established in their natural order: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday go on their way, unmovably and fixedly. As the seventh-day Sabbath is in this changeless weekly cycle, men have never lost track of it.
Note: Nothing in the record of the long day indicates any disruption of the weekly cycle. The day is measured by the complete period between one sunset and the next. The extension of daylight several extra hours simply delayed the beginning of the next day; therefore, the order of the days of the week was not altered.
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