Rend your heart…Joel 2:13 Blow the trumpet, sound the alarm, Verse 1. The day of the LORD is coming. As the fire and locust devour, the Lord’s judgment is sure, faces shall be drained of color, verse 6. Repent, while there is time. Speaking through His prophet Joel, God calls Israel to repentance, Chapter 2, […]
Tell your children…Joel 1:3 Tell your children what? Verse 2: Hear this, you elders, and give ear, all you inhabitants of the land! Has anything like this happened in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? Tell them what has happened and what will happen. Knowing our history helps us not repeat it. Knowing […]
It is most holy…Leviticus 2:3 These words, it is most holy, appear 11 times in Leviticus. They are used to describe what was sacrificed to the Lord at the Tabernacle. Strange: what was ordinary—whether grain, flour, or animal—before, became most holy to God when offered as a sacrifice for sin. The result of the sacrifice was […]
Remember the Lord…Nehemiah 4:14 The days of Nehemiah were like our days are now. They were surrounded. We are surrounded. In the words of Lt. General Chesty Puller, “We’re surrounded. That simplifies the problem. They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by the enemy that outnumbers us […]
Or is a eunuch…Leviticus 21:20 The service of the priesthood was sacred to the Lord. Only a descendant of Aaron, a Levite, could serve as a priest. Of those men, certain were disqualified to approach the altar because of a defect. A eunuch was such a defect. He could eat of the bread of God, […]
Work out your own salvation…Philippians 2:12 (follow up to there is still time) At first glance it seems the Apostle Paul is suggesting there is something more for us to do to be saved. This bold statement comes at the end of the Apostle’s prophetic statement, at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, verse […]
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand…Matthew 4:17 With these words Jesus began His mission. They were the same words John the Baptist preached, Matthew 3:1. Jesus did not come to destroy the Roman Empire, the current human kingdom. Instead, He came to establish God’s Kingdom, the kingdom of heaven. Jesus did not […]
My Peace, I give you…John 14:27 The Jews would have taken notice of this statement. For God had taken away His peace. For I have taken away My Peace from this people, says the LORD, lovingkindness, and mercies. Jeremiah 16:5. God promised to return His peace, Isaiah 62:1a: For Zion’s sake I will not hold My peace… […]
You will be like God…Genesis 3:4 The reason Jesus came is recorded on the first three pages of Genesis. The two people God created to partner with Him to protect the earth forgot who they really were. They were already like God. In that, they had been created in the image of God, Chapter 1, […]
Bringing guilt on the people…Leviticus 4:3 According to the Bible, when a priest sinned, he brought guilt upon the people. This points to the serious nature of sin. The sin of a priest not only affected him, his sin infected the people with guilt. Perhaps we are not the ‘island’ some say we are. Sin […]