Wandering Through Biblical History: Wandering through the Books of Joshua, Judges, & Ruth for 30 Days
Hey y’all! Thanks for joining us as we Wander Through Biblical history in this series. In this one, we will be wandering through the books of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth for 30 days. At the end of these 30 days, we will have completely read through another three books of the Bible. If you would like to participate in Wandering Through the Biblical history of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth for 30 days with us, we will be using #WanderingThroughGodsWord!
We started this initiative because we saw a need to help people get into God’s word in a simple way. So many rely on devotionals (most of which teach very little at best) or books on the Bible. Some of those can be helpful, but why not go to the untainted source? And no matter how much we like or trust an author, it’s important to remember that commentary and notes included in study Bibles, book studies, and devotionals are not inspired and are written by fallible humans. (If you would like a study Bible we do recommend this one and this one as they are the 2 best we have found).
As always, we would like to reiterate we are not scholars. Just regular people trying to serve our brothers and sisters in Christ by helping them learn. This reading plan is simple. No frills here. But we would like to include a few things to help you before you get started.
It’s important to realize we are NOT in the Bible. We should strive to read the text as it was intended. We are not David, Daniel, or anyone else in the Bible. So here are some things to understand and ask ourselves when beginning to read Scripture.
Things to understand about Scripture in general:
1) It’s our source for divine revelation from God.
2) The Bible instructs us in how to love, obey, and worship God.
3) It’s infallible, without error, and complete. Knowing that allows us to have a source for checking everything someone claims about our faith.
How to go about reading Scripture:
1) read the passage IN CONTEXT, with PROPER interpretation and evaluation. Here’s some questions to help you with this:
*Who is writing/speaking?
*Who was the original audience?
*What do the verses before/after say?
*What do the chapters before/after say?
*What does the rest of the Bible say about this?
*What’s the historical, cultural, and/or geographical background?
ERRORS TO AVOID when reading Scripture:
1) Do NOT make the Bible say what you want it to say. It isn’t a book about us or to make us feel good. There will be texts that reveal things (sins) we need to correct in our lives. That’s not always easy or comfortable, but it’s necessary for us to be more Christ-like. We need to let the Bible say what God intended it to say.
2) Do NOT ask “what does this mean to me?” Again, the Bible isn’t about you. It’s God’s book. It’s about God.
Thanks for hanging in there. We know that was a lot of information all at once. But it’s necessary. We had to learn all of this when we started reading our Bible. It’s just not taught today very often, but it’s critical to rightly understanding Scripture.
So without further ado, here is the reading plan for Wandering through Joshua, Judges, and Ruth for 30 days. (Videos/links y’all might find helpful will be added next to the text they are the most relevant to—at the moment this is simply a reading plan to help with accountability; no links/videos have been added at this time).
Day 1:
Joshua 1 & 2
Day 2:
Joshua 3 & 4
Day 3:
Joshua 5 & 6
Day 4:
Joshua 7 & 8
Day 5:
Joshua 9 & 10
Day 6:
Joshua 11 & 12
Day 7:
Joshua 13 & 14
Day 8:
Joshua 15 & 16
Day 9:
Joshua 17 & 18
Day 10:
Joshua 19 & 20
Day 11:
Joshua 21 & 22
Day 12:
Joshua 23 & 24
Day 13:
Judges 1 & 2
Day 14:
Judges 3 & 4
Day 15:
Judges 5 & 6
Day 16:
Judges 7 & 8
Day 17:
Judges 9 & 10
Day 18:
Judges 11 & 12
Day 19:
Judges 13 & 14
Day 20:
Judges 15
Day 21:
Judges 16
Day 22:
Judges 17
Day 23:
Judges 18
Day 24:
Judges 19
Day 25:
Judges 20
Day 26:
Judges 21
Day 27:
Ruth 1
Day 28:
Ruth 2
Day 29:
Ruth 3
Day 30:
Ruth 4
Hooray! You did it! You spent 30 days in God’s Word and completed three books of the Bible! Praise be to the Lord! We hope you found it edifying. Thank you for Wandering Through Biblical history with us as we Wandered through Joshua, Judges and Ruth! We will continue to add resources as we come across them, so feel free to come back and do it again or share it with others. As always to God be the glory!