2024-08-05 06:58 Proverbs 11:8. "The righteous is delivered from trouble, and the wicked gets into it instead." Notice that the righteous "is delivered from trouble", that is, not by his own doing is he saved; yet the...

2024-08-04 11:25 Isaiah 57:5. "[Y]ou who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree; who slay your children in the valley, under the cleft of the rocks." God, through Isaiah, is upbraiding His children, who...

2024-08-03 10:16 Matthew 19:3. "And the Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, 'Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?'"   Matthew tells us the Pharisees asked this question as a t...

2024-08-01 10:40 2 Maccabees 6:21 "Those who were in charge of that unlawful sacrifice took the man aside, because of their long acquaintance with him, and privately urged him to bring meat of his own providing, prope...

2024-07-31 07:45 2 Samuel 23:11-12. "And next to him was Shammah ... The Philistines gathered together at Lehi where there was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the men fled from the Philistines. But he took his s...

2024-07-30 10:08 Acts 5:17-18. "But the high priest rose up and all who were with him, that is, the party of the Sadducees, and filled with jealousy, they arrested the apostles and put them in the common prison." (Spo...

2024-07-29 07:13 1 Maccabees 7:15. "And he spoke peaceful words to them and swore this oath to them 'We will not seek to injure you or your friends.'" This oath is a lie. The men speaking it will immediately, ...

2024-07-28 09:01 1 John 5:21 "Little children, keep yourself from idols."   This is the last line of John's first letter, and what a good last line it is! Earlier, John says "We know that we are of God, and the ...

2024-07-26 09:10 1 Maccabees 6:28. “The King was enraged when he heard this. He assembled all his friends, the commanders of his forces and those in authority.” Antiochus, known as Eupator, is the enraged king here. H...

2024-07-25 05:45 Jeremiah 17:5 "Thus says the Lord: 'Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, whose heart turns away from the Lord.'"   This is one of so many times in the Bible that God ...