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19 So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they
arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women
exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”
20 “Don’t call me Naomi,” she told them. “Call me Mara, because the
Almighty has made my life very bitter. 21 I went away
full, but the Lord has brought me
back empty. Why call me Naomi? The Lord
has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.”
22 So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabite, her
daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning.
13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to
her, the Lord enabled her to
conceive, and she gave birth to a son. 14 The women said
to Naomi: “Praise be to the Lord,
who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become famous
throughout Israel! 15 He will renew your life and
sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is
better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”
16 Then Naomi took the child in her arms and cared for him. 17 The
women living there said, “Naomi has a son!” And they named him Obed. He was the
father of Jesse, the father of David.
Who
was stirred when Naomi and Ruth arrived (verse 19)?
Why did Naomi tell the people to call her Mara
(verse 20)?
Who had afflicted Naomi (verse 21)?
When did Naomi and Ruth arrive in Bethlehem (verse
22)?
Who did Ruth marry (verse 13)?
In your opinion, why did the women say that
the Lord had not left Naomi “without a
guardian-redeemer” (verse 14)?
Who is better to Naomi “than seven sons” (verse 15)?
How did Naomi react to her grandson (verse 16)?
Who was Naomi’s grandson’s grandson (verse 17)?
In your opinion, what happened to change
Naomi’s situation so drastically?
18 The word of the Lord
Almighty came to me.
19 This is what the Lord
Almighty says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months will
become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah. Therefore love
truth and peace.”
20 This is what the Lord
Almighty says: “Many peoples and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come, 21 and
the inhabitants of one city will go to another and say, ‘Let us go at once to
entreat the Lord and seek the Lord Almighty. I myself am going.’ 22 And
many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the Lord Almighty and to entreat him.”
23 This is what the Lord
Almighty says: “In those days ten people from all languages and nations will
take firm hold of one Jew by the hem of his robe and say, ‘Let us go with you,
because we have heard that God is with you.’”
Whose word came to Zechariah (verse 18)?
In your opinion, what is the significance of
the “fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh
and tenth months” becoming joyful and glad occasions (verse 19)?
Who will come (verse 20)?
Who are the “inhabitants of one city” going to entreat and seek (verse 21)?
What will “many
peoples and powerful nations” come to Jerusalem to do (verse 22)?
Why will “ten
people from all languages and nations” take hold on the hem on a Jew’s robe
(verse 23)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of
this passage?
In your opinion, how are the decisions of
Naomi between the Ruth 1:19-21 and Ruth 4:13-17 similar to the decisions that
the Jews that Zechariah is talking to must make before the time when the
peoples and nations “come to Jerusalem to
seek the Lord Almighty and to entreat him”?
John 6:60-71 – New International Version (NIV)
60 On hearing it, many of his
disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”
61 Aware that his disciples
were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, “Does this offend you? 62 Then
what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! 63 The
Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to
you—they are full of the Spirit and life. 64 Yet there
are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus had known from the beginning
which of them did not believe and who would betray him. 65 He
went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the
Father has enabled them.”
66 From this time many of his
disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
67 “You do not want to leave
too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.
68 Simon Peter answered him,
“Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We
have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”
70 Then Jesus replied, “Have
I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!” 71 (He
meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was
later to betray him.)
Who said “this is a hard teaching” (verse 60)?
In your opinion, why would Jesus
respond by asking “does this offend you”
(verse 61)?
Where did Jesus indicate that the Son
of Man would acscend to (verse 62)?
Who gives life (verse 63)?
In your opinion, why were there some “who do not believe” (verse 64)?
What has to happen for someone to come
to Jesus (verse 65)?
Who “turned back and no longer followed him” (verse 66)?
What did Jesus ask the Twelve (verse 67)?
What did Simon Peter say that Jesus
had (verse 68)?
Who did they know that Jesus was (verse 69)?
What was one of the Twelve (verse 70)?
Who was going to betray Jesus (verse 71)?
In your opinion, what is the basic
message of this passage?
In your opinion, how is the isolation of the
Jews prior to the people of the world coming and holding on the hems of their
robes in Zechariah 8:18-23 and the isolation of the Twelve after the hard
teaching of Jesus similar?
1 John 2:18-27 – New International Version (NIV)
18 Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that
the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we
know it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but
they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would
have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.
20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know
the truth. 21 I do not write to you because you do not
know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the
truth. 22 Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that
Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the
Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father;
whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
24 As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning
remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. 25 And
this is what he promised us—eternal life.
26 I am writing these things to you about those who are trying to
lead you astray. 27 As for you, the anointing you
received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But
as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real,
not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.
What
time is it (verse 18)?
Who have come (verse 18)?
How do we know that antichrists “did not really belong to us” (verses 18
and 19)?
In your opinion, how is “an anointing from the Holy One” related to knowing “the truth” (verse 20)?
What does not come “from the truth” (verse 21)?
“Who
is the liar” (verse 22)?
Who is the antichrist (verse 22)?
What does the person who “acknowledges the Son” have (verse 23)?
How do the readers assure themselves they will
“remain in the Son and in the Father” (verse
24)?
What is promised (verse 25)?
Who is John writing about (verse 26)?
What does “his
anointing” teach (verse 27)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of
this passage?
In your opinion, how does John’s instruction to “see that what you have heard from the
beginning remains in you” in 1 John
2:18-27 help us understand how Naomi was able to move from bitter in Ruth
1:19-21 to blessed by a guardian-redeemer (grandson) in Ruth 4:13-17?
In your opinion, how does discerning and
remaining in the Truth as instructed by 1 John 2:18-27 help us get to the point
where people might say about us what they say about the Jew in Zechariah
8:18-23 “we have heard that God is with
you”?
In your opinion, how do the people leaving
Jesus because of the “hard teaching” in
John 6:60-71 help us understand why antichrists might leave the truth and come
back to believers with lies in 1 John 2:18-27?
In your opinion, what do these passages from Ruth,
Zechariah, John and 1 John help us understand about remaining in him?
In your opinion, how should we acknowledge our
Guardian-Redeemer today?
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