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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...
Are We Even Feeling the Effects of Our Debauchery?
2022-08-10 10:54 Hosea 4:7-10. (Another repeat!) The more God's people increased, the more they sinned against Him. So He says He will change their glory into shame. "They feed on the sin of my people; they are gr...
Mercy Can Be Very Harsh, Especially When Time is Short
2022-08-09 09:00 Revelation 9:1-6. The fifth angel blows his trumpet and a star falls from Heaven to earth holding the key to the shaft to the bottomless pit. He opens the shaft and smoke like that of a great furnace ...
Are We Too Weary to Repent?
2022-08-07 12:50 Jeremiah 9:4-6. God is lamenting how bad his people have become. He warns them to beware of every neighbor and not to trust any brother "for every brother is a supplanter and every neighbor goes about...
The Idolatry Factory In Which We Live
2022-08-06 10:01 Wisdom 14:12-15. "The idea of making idols was the beginning of fornication, and the invention of them was the corruption of life." Idols have not existed from the beginning and will not exist forever...
Don't Believe Treacherous Words, Even if They Sound Good
2022-08-04 16:08 1 Maccabees 7:8-11. This is the beginning of the passage I blogged about in There is No Truth or Justice in Them. Here we learn that King Demetrius chose Bacchides to find Judas Maccabeus and all his ...
There Are Times We Must Put People Out of Our Camp
2022-08-03 07:49 Numbers 5:1-6. God tells Moses to tell the people to put out from the camp any leper, anyone who has a discharge, and anyone who is unclean through having had contact with the dead. All of these, whet...