Today, I am reading and commenting on Acts 7-8.

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I don’t know if I ever noticed before, but Stephen emphasizes that the Israelites rejected Moses repeatedly.  Somewhere along the line I developed the idea that Stephen talked about Moses in a way designed to develop good will with the Sanhedrin in order to set them up to accept Jesus.  As I was reading the passage today I realized that Stephen was setting up the comparison between the way the ancient Israelites had rejected Moses and the way in which the Sanhedrin had rejected Jesus.  Further, immediately after talking about the way in which the Israelites worshipped the golden calf which Aaron, the high priest, made, Stephen talks about how Solomon built the temple as a house for God, despite the fact that God does not live in houses made by man.  This reads to me as Stephen comparing the temple and the high priest before whom he was being tried to the golden calf and Aaron’s role in making it.  Stephen then outright accuses them of violating the Law of Moses when they had Jesus killed.  Let us examine our lives to see if there is something which we are worshipping in place of God.  Are we worshipping the Bible?

There is a lot of other things of value in today’s passage, so please read it.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.