Proper 27A
Ai Khawng
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Psa 78.23-29 Longest of all psalms except 119. Deeds and commands - God acting and speaking, this typifies the Asaph psalms. Deed /ma'alaal/ and command /mishwah/. Wilcock speaks of the double chiasmus in 67-68 and how what looks like an unstructured psalm does have carefully constructed form. Wilcock also summarizes
Motyer (NBC) well, there are two halves after the vv 1-8 introduction.
Each half has a preface, then is followed by four sections, in order, redemption, provision, judgment, and love (in spite of rebellious forgetfulness).
Today's reading is the introduction. We also read 34-38 on Holy Cross Sunday ABC, and 17-33 on B Proper 13. People are not just misguided, they are, in a sense, insane for sticking only to the inductive method. Who wouldn't learn from this attention of form. If the Sunday School/Adult Education teacher mentioned it, would you walk out of the room or would you sit and listen. Books are written teaching.
LCMS Lectionary Summary:
OT: Amo 5.18-24 (same) Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD /yom yhwh/
Epistle: 1Th 4.13-18 (same) don’t be ignorant, those who have fallen asleep will be brought by Jesus. Those who have no hope can’t look forward to that. Those asleep precede those who are alive, and will together with the Lord descend from heaven with the archangel’s call and trumpet.
Gospel 203: Mat 25.1-13 (same) Five wise maidens, five foolish maidens, when the cry comes at midnight “behold the bridegroom!”
Summary: Watch and Wait
Hymn of the Day: 516 Wake, awake, for night is flying
Liturgy:
Summary:
Wisdom of Solomon 6.12-16 "Wisdom shines brightly and never fades" (REB)
(NAB) "Resplendent and unfading is Wisdom..."
Amos 5.18-24
Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! Why would you have the day of the Lord? It is darkness, and not light; as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned with his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him. Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it? “I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and cereal offerings, I will not accept them, and the peace offerings of your fatted beasts I will not look upon. Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Jenny and I read the selections this week twice, once on Monday and, I think because it didn't seem clear like yesterday (which would on Monday mean Sunday) it had to have been Th or Fr. This is one of the OT prophetical passages I remember from my youth. This reminds me why "reading the Bible through" means, in effect, considering parts of Leviticus as "important" as Gen-Exo. We know in our heads that all the Bible is inspired, we'll fight for Leviticus on the drop of a hat, we know it's all good cover to cover, and may even have a reaction when others diss Leviticus. However, reading the Bible withe the Lectionary in mind changes that. I remember being drawn to the BCP just because one reads through the whole Bible every year. It was too big a step for me to not read certain passages. And I will go back to another method sometime in the future, we are on the cusp of beginning Year B. Once that year is done Nov 2018 I may go back to the BCP, I probably will with a modified approach (such as having BCP weekly open at all times but still going through BCP daily). That way I can see the relationship of the two, if the OT readings in the daily track at all with Sunday.
Another thing today's reading shows me is that there are indeed memorable parts of the OT minor prophets. It is so important it's as if when learning to appreciate classical music, you know there is a lot of good music out there, but because Bach, Mozart, Beethoven tower, we forget the not one-hit-wonders, but the composers that are less well known than let's say Mendelssohn. Another comparison is paintings. The Mona Lisa. Imagine cutting into squares that painting into 3x3 or 5x5, in pieces. If you laid them on a table face down, and you only picked up one at a time and turned that one piece over, some would be more important than others (the eyes, the mouth). They all are important. If even a one inch piece of the background or of the chest were taken away, even if it were a darker color in the background, the painting as a whole would suffer. But if we go through the museum and look at the ML, we stare mostly at the eyes and face, a little at the hands.
This "important" not as important issue is not just in books, e.g. Gen > Num, but within books. Exo 1-20 > 21-40. 24 is the exception. 21-23 are various laws, 25-40 are the offerings and the building (with objects) the Tabernacle. Think of all the chapters on the judgments on the nations in the prophets. Those are in this sense < the non-judgment parts. That is a generalization too, because there are memorable parts from the judgment on other nations chapters.
The lectionary, with weekly reading at church, represent 156 (52x3) themes. There are things doubling up but you can bet that most all themes one could think of, sin, forgiveness, trial, persecution, the Spirit, watching and waiting, prayer, division, healing, serving, humility, discipleship, greatest commandment, Day of the Lord, resurrection, false teaching, divorce.
Wisdom of Solomon 6.17-20
The beginning of wisdom is the most sincere desire for instruction, and concern for instruction is love of her, and love of her is the keeping of her laws, and giving heed to her laws is assurance of immortality, and immortality brings one near to God; so the desire for wisdom leads to a kingdom.
"the first step toward Wisdom is an earnest desire for discipline..."
Psa 70
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering. Be pleased, O God, to deliver me! O Lord, make haste to help me! Let them be put to shame and confusion who seek my life! Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who desire my hurt! Let them be appalled because of their shame who say, “Aha, Aha!” May all who seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee! May those who love thy salvation say evermore, “God is great!” But I am poor and needy; hasten to me, O God! Thou art my help and my deliverer; O Lord, do not tarry!
Deus in adjutorium (meum intende)
Hermeneia says this, This psalm, whose opening words in the translation of the so–called Psalterium Gallicanum, “Deus in adjutorium meum intende, Domine ad adjuvandum me festina,” became the Invitatory of the church’s Liturgy of the Hours
1Th 4.13-18
But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first; then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.
The Hope of the Resurrection NBC says (in effect) that Paul wrote this to correct the wrong belief that Jesus may have raised from the dead but believers who have fallen asleep will not, only those who are alive at His return. Fuller seems to think that this resurrection of the dead is odd or bizarre teaching, where in the world did he get that idea, it is as simple as the nose on your face. Jesus rose, we shall raise. I'm sure he would say xy and z to defend his view, but I'm very confident he wouldn't convince me.
Mat 25.1-13
“Then the kingdom of heaven shall be compared to ten maidens who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them; but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ Then all those maidens rose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the wise replied, ‘Perhaps there will not be enough for us and for you; go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.’ And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast; and the door was shut. Afterward the other maidens came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’ But he replied, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
Parable of the Ten Bridesmaids (Virgins) five wise, five foolish. We are reading those now to underscore the "be watchful and vigilant" theme that we'll continue in Advent coming soon. In Thessalonians we read of the Parousia, here we are reminded and warned that if it delays, don't let your guard down, be prepared always.