Hope from Gehenna | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | November 6, 2022
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🗓️ 6 November 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:08.7 | My name is Mike Whitmer, and I entitled our reading, Pope from Gehenna. |
| 0:14.0 | In 1979, archaeologist Gabriel Barcai unearthed two small silver scrolls. It took years to delicately unroll |
| 0:25.1 | the metal scrolls and each was found to contain a Hebrew etching of the blessing from number 6, 24 through 26. |
| 0:33.7 | The Lord blessed you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. |
| 0:39.4 | The Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace. |
| 0:43.8 | Scholars date the scrolls to the 7th century BC. They're the oldest known bits of scripture |
| 0:50.3 | in the world. Equally interesting is where they were found. Barcai was digging in a cave in the world. Equally interesting is where they were found. |
| 0:56.1 | Barcai was digging in a cave in the valley of Hennon, the very place where the prophet |
| 1:01.2 | Jeremiah told the people of Judah that God would slaughter them for sacrificing their |
| 1:06.2 | children. |
| 1:07.7 | This valley was the site of such wickedness that Jesus used the word Gehenna, |
| 1:13.3 | a Greek form of the Hebrew name for the Valley of Hennon, as a picture of hell. |
| 1:19.6 | On this spot, about the time Jeremiah was announcing God's judgment on his nation, |
| 1:26.3 | someone was etching his future blessing onto |
| 1:29.4 | silver scrolls. It wouldn't happen in their lifetime, but one day, on the other side |
| 1:36.7 | of the Babylonian invasion, God would turn his face toward his people and give them peace. |
| 1:44.6 | The lesson for us is clear. |
| 1:47.6 | Even if we deserve what we have coming, |
| 1:50.5 | we can cling to God's promise. |
| 1:53.7 | His heart always yearns for his people. |
| 2:11.5 | Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Jeremiah chapter 19, verses 3 through 6 and 14 through 15. |
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