Manna For Breakfast with Bill Martin

Job: Job is still maintaining his innocence while acknowledging God is good and just and that none can be completely right before Him, as his friend says God rewards the good.   Matthew:  Wrapped in the calling of Matthew, Jesus shares parables calling for compassion rather than rigid systems of the law, being emptied of the old and made new just as old wine isn't put into new wineskins....

Job:  Job even in depression and great despair while being used by God as an example as someone that will not deny Him as Satan tempts and torments him.  Matthew: Jesus goes into two storms, one with His disciples on the sea and the other when he healed two men from demons and the towns people rather than celebrating the witnessing of a miracle instead beg Him to leave.  

Job - Job's Lament - Job's friend's accusation. Matthew - Jesus Cleanses a Leper; The Centurion's Faith

Job - Job's Character and Wealth - Job Loses His Health Matthew - Judging Others; Prayer and the Golden Rule; The Narrow and Wide Gates; A Tree and Its Fruit; The Two Foundations

Genesis: Abraham's faith is tested over and over, first with Abimelech and Sarah and again when God asked that he sacrifice his only son, Isaac.  Abraham was considered righteous because of his faith and fear of the Lord.   Matthew: In this verse of Matthew Jesus teaches that where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.  Do not worry about tomorrow for it will take care of...

Genesis - Hagar, and Ismael - The Covenant of Circumcision Matthew - Continuation of the Beatitudes

Genesis - Abram and Lot separate and choose their portion of land. - War of the Kings. Abram chooses people over things. - Abram promised a son. Matthew - Sermon on the mount.

Genesis - Descendants of Noah - Universal Language, Babel, Confusion - Abram Journeys to Egypt Matthew - The Temptation of Jesus by Satan

Genesis - The flood and destruction of the earth - The flood subsides and God commands Noah to leave the ark with his family. - Covenant of the rainbow is given by God. Matthew - The preaching of John the Baptist - Jesus' baptism

Genesis - The births of Cain and Abel - The murder of Abel by Cain - Genealogy of Adam - Humankind corrupts the earth with evil. God's plan is to destroy them but instructs Noah to build an ark to save his family and the animals. Matthew - Wise men came from the east to worship the child. King Herod ordered that all the baby boys be killed. An angel warned Joseph to flee.

Genesis: Two angels pronounce that Sarah will give birth to a son in her old age.  Abraham negotiates for Sodom and Gomorrah where two angels visit Lot and urge him to warn his family to flee Sodom.  Lot's wife is turned into a pillar of salt and his daughters get him drunk and have relations with him to continue this family line. Matthew:  Jesus teaches how to give to the poor, how...

Genesis: The Bible begins with God's creation story. Mathew: The record of the genealogy of Jesus The Messiah.

Malachi:  a book of remembrance.  God's love expressed for Israel, a blessing will come upon the righteous if they believe in god and Bring their best out of their great love for him.   Revelation 22: The river of the water of life and the Tree of life.  Blessed is he who heeds the words of the prophecy of this book.  Jesus is coming quickly.

Nehemiah - All the Levites and leaders gathered to dedicate the wall. They made offerings and rejoiced. Men were appointed over the storerooms. | Priests and Levites return to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel. Psalms - Prayer for the Lord's help. Revelation - The new heaven and the new earth.

A detailed listing of all the groupings of people, tribes, cities and villages that volunteered to come back to Israel from Babylon and all their obligations is documented.

As the book of the Law continues being read the Israelites confess their sinfulness and God's faithfulness to them while haring their history laid before them.   Satan is bound for 1,000 years then freed, yet doomed.  Those faithful to Jesus and the word of God reign with Christ for 1,000 years.  All the dead are judged according to their deeds in the books.  The devil is throw...

The book of geneologies is found of the people who came up from the captivity of the exiles by Nebuchadnezzar.  Ezra reads from the book of the law daily and the feast of booths is restored.  The forth hallelujah for our Lord reigns, rejoicing for the marriage feast of the Lamb and His bride has come.  The coming of Christ riding on a white horse followed by the heavenly army to the final battle o...

Nehemiah, acting as civil leader in faithfulness to God organizes the finalization of the walls construction with threats, lies and false prophets threatening him along the way, incorrectly thinking he is seeking power for himself rather than honoring God.  The great condemnation of Babylon is announced by an angel saying  "fallen, fallen, is Babylon the great!"

The people of Israel come to Ezra who is their religious leader seeing their sin with foreign wives and seek to reconcile with God by making a covenant with Him.   Nehemiah, the civil leader 13 years later has a burden for the protection of Israel and sees the people are still in sin by not being faithful to the rebuilding of the temple and wall in dedicating their hearts to God.  The seven bowls...

Ezra has gone back to Jerusalem and prays to God because the people are intermarrying with the same people that caused them to fall into idolatry and lose their blessing in the world by God.  John sees a vision of heaven with a physical temple, with angels and all the host of heaven worshipping God.  

By edict of the king the Jews killed all their enemies and hanged the 10 sons of Haman.  The feast of Purim became established by Esther and Mordecai for all the jews to celebrate the passing of the call to their destruction being turned to their freedom from all their enemies.  Ezra, a skilled scribe of the Law of Moses and the leading men of Israel are sent to Jerusalem by King Artaxerxes.  The...

The King has Mordecai honorably paraded by Haman through the streets, then has Haman hanged.  Mordecai is promoted and the Jews are given an edict allowing them to avenge themselves of all their enemies who sought their destruction.  The rising of the two beasts speaking blasphemies against God, one a religious false prophet drawing all the earth to worship the other beast, the Anti-Chri...

Esther raised up for such a time as this, now Queen prays, fasts and obeys by humbly going to the King and requesting to hav a banquet for the king and Haman after Mordecai gets word other of Herman's plot against the Jews.  John is given the broad overview of God's plan with Israel, Satan, The Christ and the war taking place in heaven with Michael and his angels with Satan being thrown down.  Sal...

The most descriptive prophecies of The Messiah in the coming day and of the Millennium as encouragement to the people of Israel.  The Angel with the little book and it having John to eat the little book which was sweet in his mouth but bitter in his stomach. 

Now that Israel recognizes their rejection of God and idolatry Zechariah brings encouragement to those being brought back into the land of Judah that God is going to bless Jerusalem and Judah.  The release of demonic entities from the abyss who torment men for 5 months is foretold to John.  This is last call for repentance.