I can't believe I read out loud the entire Bible in 30 episodes. I swear, the more I read the Bible, the more I realize I know nothing about it. Every single page in the New Testament fascinates me and nearly makes me weep. Revelation is like being on some terrifying yet comforting alien planet. Peter and John and Jude are like the heart of a concerned father laid bare on an operating table. Just tender, and bloody, and beating and beautiful.

It astounds me how Paul didn't marry and had no children, but was as utterly a tender, compassionate, instructional, loving father as anyone will ever meet.

Nothing so clearly defines why our world is in the condition it is in than today's portion of Scripture.

After the death and resurrection of Jesus, the believers waited for His Holy Spirit to be given to them. Then once His power fell, we see the early church explode! Miracles everywhere, raising from the dead, the sick and blind and crippled cured, the first martyrs Stephen and James, and Saul turned from Christian hunter to mighty apostle and preacher of Christ in his miraculous conversion and personal call to ministry by Jesus Himself.

I love the tiniest personality differences in the way the Gospels are written among the men.

Wow. Just wow. The pure, unspeakable beauty and joy I get out of reading the actions and words of Jesus and the way He was with people. The hours went by as mere minutes during this recording.

I can't describe to you how relieved and overjoyed I was to make it to the New Testament today. All my life if you asked me which one I prefer, I would say Old Testament every time. But lately, I've just been longing for the words of Jesus.

Whew, covered a lot of the minor prophets. My favourite love of all time being Jonah, of course. Gosh, he's such a rebellious and bratty prophet, but so lovable because he's so relatable and real.

Daniel, other than Genesis is probably my favourite book in the Bible. I love how many times he's told how dearly loved he is by God. Of course today was utterly action-packed! Finishing up Daniel, we had all the exciting things! Daniel gets to tell one of the kings of Babylon that he's going to go crazy, lose his kingdom for a while, and go eat grass in the field like an animal for 7 years, but begs him to repent of his arrogance so that it won't happen, he doesn't listen and it happens anyway. Daniel being thrown into the pit of lions who can't eat him. His three friends being thrown into a blazing fire so hot it actually killed all the strongest men who threw them in, and then they were just walking around in the fire with Jesus like they were on a summer stroll and not in a raging furnace. Then Daniel is taken up in the Spirit and shown the most powerful kingdoms of the ancient world being conquered one after another. Oh, and the iconic scene where Gabriel shows up face to face to tell Daniel he totally wanted to come sooner in answer to his prayers, but he got caught up fighting some prince of darkness in Persia for a few weeks. How awesome is that? And then we began the first two chapters of Hosea, one of my most beloved and endearing prophets in the Bible. My heart goes out for him. God commanded him to marry a whore who would constantly cheat on him no matter how much he loved her, to raise her bastards, and to keep chasing after her with love regardless of her actions. All of this to represent God's endless love for His people who keep running away from their covenant marriage with Him.

We're in the home stretch now. This is day 21 out of 30 episodes of recording the entire Bible out loud. I found Ezekiel a lot smoother and faster reading and more enjoyable than Isaiah and Jeremiah. Even though Isaiah had so many lovely insights into Jesus prophesies you can't really find anywhere else in Scripture. Still, Ezekiel was interesting. Some verses that stood out to me today. Still the bleeding heart of a loving God calling to His Bride: 3:18-21-If I say to the wicked, You shall surely die, and you do not give him warning or speak to warn the wicked to turn from his wicked way, to save his life, the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. Yet if you warn the wicked and he turn not from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered yourself. Again, if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and some gift or providence which I lay before him he perverts into an occasion to sin and he commits iniquity, he shall die; because you have not given him warning he shall die in his sin and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered, but his blood I will require at your hand. Nevertheless, if you warn the righteous man not to sin and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he is warned; also you have delivered yourself from guilt. 11:18-21-And when they return there, they shall take away from it all traces of its detestable things and all its abominations. And I will give them one heart an new heart and I will put a new spirit within them; and I will take awy the stony hardened heart out of their flesh, and give them a new heart of flesh sensitive and responsive to My touch. That they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances, and do them. And they shall be My people, and I will be their God. But as for those whose heart yearns for and goes after their detestable things and their loathsome abominations, I will repay their deeds upon their own heads, says the Lord. 16:8-Now I passed by you again and looked upon you; behold you were maturing and at the time for love, and I spread My skirt over you and covering your nakedness. Yes, I plighted My troth to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord, and you became Mine. 16:14,15-And your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty, for it was perfect through My majesty and splendor which I had put on you, says the Lord. But you trusted in and relied on your own beauty and were unfaithful to God, played the harlot because of your renown, and you poured out your fornications upon anyone who passed by and your beauty was his. Sounds like our world now. 16:49,50-Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, overabundance of food, prosperous ease, and idleness were hers and her daughters'; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty and committed abominable offenses before Me; therefore I removed them when I saw fit. 18:4,5...9-Behold all souls are Mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine; the soul that sins it shall die. But if a man is righteous and does what is lawful and right.... and Who has walked in My statutes and kept My ordinances, to deal justly; then he is truly righteous, he shall surely live, says the Lord God. 18:23,24- Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord, and not rather that he should turn from his evil way and return to his God and live? But if the righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds which he has done shall be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die. 18:32- For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord. Therefore turn and live!