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We're Being Good, Why Can't We Just Be Left Alone?
2021-07-30 16:33 Ezekiel 39:1-6. Part of Ezekiel's prophecy against Gog, the leader of Magog. Here, God tells Ezekiel to prophesy that Gog is against God and God's punishment of Gog will involve driving him fo...
Return to the Promise
2021-07-29 14:20 Jeremiah 46:13-17. The prophecy of Jeremiah regarding "the coming of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon to smite the land of Egypt." The Lord says Jeremiah is to declare in Egypt and its outermost cities ...
Romanticizing the Past
2021-07-28 13:50 Isaiah 63:10-14. Isaiah laments that the people have rebelled against God, and so God became their enemy, and "fought against them." But God relents and remembers the days of Moses. Isaiah asks where ...
I Think We Might be Babylon
2021-07-27 20:32 Revelation 14:8-12. In the midst of Revelation's chaos, a second angel declares that Babylon is fallen, "she who made all nations drink the wine of her impure passion." And a third declares that a...
Control Your Passions
2021-07-26 19:06 Judges 15:1-8. After having left in a murderous fit of rage, Samson decides to go back to his wife. When he gets there, he finds that his Philistine father-in-law has given his wife to his best man. H...
The Power of Wisdom
2021-07-25 12:57 Wisdom 10:9-12. Some of the great power of wisdom is described. Wisdom is usually portrayed as a woman - here she rescues those who serve her; she guides on straight paths a righteous man fleeing from...
When the Time is Right to Speak, We Will Know
2021-07-24 17:27 Acts 10:30-33. I have had this reading before, and blogged about it in Peter Models Our Mission. Here, Cornelius, the centurion who an angel told to send for Peter to come teach his growing Christian ...
A Sovereign Versus THE Sovereign
2021-07-23 16:05 2 Maccabees 15:1-5. Nicanor plans to attack Judas Maccabee and his men on the Sabbath because he knows that they will be observing the day of rest. The Jews who have been forced to fight with Nicanor&...
Who Are the Needy and Who Really Cares?
2021-07-22 13:33 Amos 8:4-8. God is warning those who "trample upon the needy" and "bring the poor of the land to an end"; those who cannot wait for the Sabbath to be over, so they can start selling again; those who u...
We Have a Lot of Refuse to Get Rid Of
2021-07-21 08:11 Philippians 3:2-11. Paul cautions us to "Look out for the dogs, look out for the evil-workers, look out for those who would mutilate the flesh." Those who worship Jesus Christ in spirit are "the true ...