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GENESIS 32-33:
Yesterday in Genesis 31, we heard how Jacob and his big family got away from Laban and started the journey home. When Laban caught up with him, he and Jacob got into a quarrel and ended up making a covenant with one another.

JOB 19:
In Job chapter 18, Bildad once again gave a speech about what happens to wicked people, and by implication, he said, “You're just getting what you deserve.” Job’s response in today’s chapter includes amazing revelations. Verses 23-27 can be compared with the second half of 1Corinthians 15.

MARK 12a:
In Mark 11, Jesus was welcomed in triumph in Jerusalem, he cursed a fig tree and taught about prayer, and cleansed the temple of merchant activity. Then he answered and confuted the chief priests who challenged his authority to “do these things,”— in particular, taking their businesses out of the temple.

In Mark 12:26-27 Jesus said,
NLT “But now, as to whether the dead will be raised — haven’t you ever read about this in the writings of Moses, in the story of the burning bush? Long after Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had died, God said to Moses, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ 27 So he is the God of the living, not the dead. You have made a serious error.”

About those verses, in Lumina.Bible.org Thomas Constable quotes Lane:
“If the death of the patriarchs is the last word of their history, there has been a breach of the promises of God guaranteed by the [Abrahamic] covenant, and of which the formula ‘the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob’ is the symbol. It is in fidelity to his covenant that God will resurrect the dead.”

Let’s pray.
Our Lord Christ Jesus, our Savior, thank You for the way You acted out parables for us. We don’t want to be like that fig tree You cursed! When You come to examine us, may You find fruit. When they returned to that fig tree and saw what had happened, You taught them, “When you pray and ask for something, believe that you have received it, and you will be given whatever you ask for.” Lord, teach us how to come to You in believing prayer. May we learn to ask for things for Your glory, for those are things that matter the most in bearing fruit for You. And You said that when we pray, we need to forgive anything that we may have against anyone, so that our Father will forgive us. So Lord, we pray that You would make us aware of our grudges against others. Help us to forgive those people. And so now, we ask that You would forgive our sins that we confess to You today.