Week 32 Ezekiel 40-48
I finished Ezekiel today – nine chapters. Nine is more than I usually read but I had an uneasy feeling about my reading progress. At the end of July I’d checked and I was ahead of schedule. But the problem – a kind of X-Factor – is that I have two (non-corresponding) bible reading schedules.
Bible Reading Schedule #1 is to read through the bible by December 31.
But Bible Reading Schedule #2 – a sub-schedule of #1 – is to finish the OT by August 31.
Schedule #1 is my primary schedule. Schedule #2 is totally negotiable. But it’s my preference – I want four months to read the NT.
Anyway I checked my Schedule #2 progress today: 22 days left in August and I have 91 chapters to read. 4.14 chapters per day. That means that even though I’m ahead on Schedule #1 I’m behind on #2 (that confirmed my suspicion when I started reading today and that’s what put me in a hurry-up frame-of-mind.)
Note: one main thing I noticed today is that Ezekiel’s long last vision & prophecy begins with the Lord telling him: watch and listen…Pay close attention to everything I show you…Then you will return to the people and tell them everything you have seen (Ezekiel 40:4 NLT). I kept that in mind for nine chapters wondering what the exiles in Babylon would think about Ezekiel’s fantastic temple vision. But I got to the end of the prophecy and that was the end of the book. So I was left hanging. Wondering what people thought about Ezekiel’s unbelievable story.