How do I read Chapters like this? I am not going to lie; they are not the most fascinating chapters(for me). What I do is: as I read them I circle all the stuff I “get” not that I would never have “gotten” had I not started back from Genesis. I make a note as to why I understand it because as sharp as my memory is now on remembering: who, what, where, when, and why… I know I will forget!
So here is an example of what I did:
Ch 49 I circled Ammon, and noted they are the birth cousins from Lot to Moab (Gen 19).
Edom (VS 7), from the Esau, Jacob’s brother. Teman was a city known for its Wisdom and Philosophy, which makes sense since Job’s friend Eliphaz was from there.
Vs 16, the scripture referred to Edom as eagle’s nests, remember from Obadiah the picture of the city built on the side of a red mountain.
Anyway, this is how I creatively get through the not so interesting chapters AND know that when all this escapes my brain, and it will, my homework is done.
Chapter 50 by the way is really
important and if you go back and read it in a month it will make a lot more sense. 50:3..A nation from the North will attack Babylon (Medo-Persia WILL attack and conquer Babylon), also when you read these chapters always look for the Remnant spared
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