2022-04-24 11:10 Daniel 3:13-15. King Nebuchadnezzar is furious when he hears that faithful Jews Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego do not worship the idol that he has ordered all in Babylon to worship. He calls them bef...

2022-04-22 09:21 Esther 9:16-19. After Queen Esther alerts her husband the king to his servant Hamea's plot to kill the Jews and pleads for them, the king delivers an edict to stop the plan. The Jews then rise up ...

2022-04-21 10:10 Psalm 6. David begins this psalm by acknowledging his sinfulness and asking for forgiveness and healing. He asks God to turn to him and save him, and he reminds God that in death there is no remembran...

2022-04-20 10:26 1 Maccabees 6:18-27. The king's forces are fighting against the Israelites trying to "harm them and strengthen the Gentiles." So Judas Maccabeus assembles the people to fight back and they have gr...

2022-04-19 06:55 Ezekiel 3:4-11. God tells Ezekiel to get up and go to the exiled House of Israel and tell them everything that God tells him. God points out that he is not sending Ezekiel to a foreign land where they...

2022-04-18 07:44 Amos 8:9-10. God is promising that he sees the injustice being done by those who "trample upon the needy" (Amons 8:4) and "buy the poor for silver" (Amos 8:6), and the day is coming when the land will...

2022-04-17 10:03 Proverbs 24:28-29. "Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause .... Do not say, 'I will do to him as he has done to me; I will pay the man back for what he has done.'"   There are ...

2022-04-16 10:59 Isaiah 47:14-15. God is speaking to his people as his bride who He has allowed to suffer the consequences of going astray. He tells them that the many counselors they have been pursuing and following ...

2022-04-14 09:59 Job 26:1-7. Job answers God in thanks, saying God has helped him who has no power and counseled him who has no wisdom, giving him plentious knowledge. God has need of no help to do these things, it al...

2022-04-13 09:12 Psalm 125:1-3. Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever. God surrounds his people the way the mountains surround Jerusalem. He will protect them foreve...