2023-10-14 11:14 Jeremiah 29:18-19. "I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, a terror, a hissing, and a reproach among all th...

2023-10-13 09:02 2 Kings 24:7. "And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the Brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates."   M...

2023-10-12 10:15 Wisdom 16:4. "For it was necessary that upon those oppressors inexurable want should come, while to these it was merely shown how their enemies were being tormented."   Solomon is talking about how ...

2023-10-11 10:17 2 Corinthians 5:11. "Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience."   At one point during the last few ye...

2023-10-10 12:15 Isaiah 14:12. "How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!"   This power, this evil, Satan, the Prince of this world, i...

2023-10-08 16:15 Psalm 22:25. "From thee comes my praise in the great congregations; my vows I will pay before those who fear him."   My praise does come from Him! Everything comes from Him! I wouldn't even be a...

2023-10-07 11:25 Jeremiah 12:11. "They have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourns to me. The whole land is made desolate, but no man lays it to heart."   The "they" here are the "many shepherds" who have destroy...

2023-10-06 08:50 Deuteronomy 3:18. "And I commanded you at the time, saying "The Lord your God has given you this land to possess; all your men of valor shall pass over armed before your brethren the people of Israel....

2023-10-05 07:02 Sirach 41:6. "The inheritance of the children of sinners will perish, and on their posterity will be a perpetual reproach."   This is like a description of generational curses, which I have been lea...

2023-10-04 08:06 Matthew 18:23. "Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants."   I have lately been taking only a line or two for my readings, trying to ...