Meditation is the missing link between Bible intake and prayer. The two are often disjointed when they should be united. We read the Bible, close it, and then try to shift gears into prayer. But many times it seems as if the gears between the two won’t mesh. In fact, after some forward progress in our time in the Word, shifting to prayer sometimes is like suddenly moving back into neutral or even reverse. Instead there should be a smooth, almost unnoticeable transition between Scripture input and prayer output so that we move even closer to God in those moments. This happens when there is the link of meditation in between.
Donald S. Whitney

Wise Men are decendants of Daniel?

Wise Men are decendants of Daniel?

by glen on 2001-01-07 21:59:47

A few weeks ago, I heard a proposal that the Wise Men who gave gifts to Jesus may have been (at least) spiritual decendants of Daniel, who hundreds of years prior had been the chief Wise Man in Babylon – taken there as a captive from Jerusalem.

The distance from Babylon to Jerusalem is roughly 1000 miles. Camels would be able to travel this distance in no less than 40 days. A long journey for someone unsure of their goal. A guiding star could be quite helpful!

Two (of hundreds) of the articles on the web, which further discuss this idea are here and here. It’s exciting to see how God’s plans span hundreds of years to support key events in time.

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