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Tending to the Dead and Soul-Dead
2022-08-24 10:05 Ezekiel 44:25-27. In the midst of Ezekiel's vision of the new Temple, God tells him the rules and ordinances for worship there, including setting forth the behavior of the priests. Here he says th...
Dreams and Vindication
2022-08-23 12:23 Esther 10:9-12. Mordecai is reflecting on all that has happened in the Book of Esther. He is tying the events back to the dream he had at the beginning of the book. He acknowledges that God has done g...
Putting God Before Everything
2022-08-21 12:57 Psalm 132:1-5. The psalmist asks the Lord to remember in David's favor all the hardships he endured - how he vowed not to enter his home, or to sleep, or to rest until he found "a place for the Lo...
I Get You, Jeremiah!
2022-08-20 10:39 Jeremiah 20:13-18. This is part of Jeremiah's prayer/lament/venting to the Lord over his situation. He is in a tough spot because God is prompting him to speak to the people, but he is suffering g...
Listen, Take Heed, We Are On the Brink of Destruction!
2022-08-18 10:19 Jeremiah 26:1-6. In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, the Lord tells Jeremiah to go to the court of the Temple and proclaim to all the nations of Judah the words that God will give him, and not...
There May Be Blossoms, But There Will Be No Harvest
2022-08-17 15:51 Isaiah 17:10-11. Part of Isaiah's warning to Damascus. They have a forgotten the God of their salvation, the Rock of their refuge. Therefore, though they plant "and set out slips of an alien god,"...
The Worthlessness of False Gods
2022-08-16 16:45 Baruch 6:53-59. Idols and false gods cannot set up a king, or give rain, or deliver someone who is wronged. They have no power at all, "they are like crows between heaven and earth." When fire breaks ...
Knowing When It's Not You, It's Them
2022-08-14 10:33 Job 27:7-11. Job says let his enemies be as the wicked and those who rise up against him as the unrighteous, because the godless have no hope when God cuts them off and takes away their lives. God wil...
Slain by the Lord
2022-08-13 17:47 Isaiah 66:14-15. "You shall see and your heart shall rejoice, your bones shall flourish like the grass; and it shall be known that the hand of the Lord is with his servants, and his indignation is aga...
Who Brings These Calamities On Us?
2022-08-12 11:58 Baruch 4:27-29. Baruch tells the people to take courage and cry to God "for you will be remembered by him who brought this upon you." Just as they purposed to go astray from God, they should now retur...