the angel spoke with me…Zechariah 1:13 Something happened last night at the men’s Bible study that bears repeating. It was the combined effort of men using the Bible to understand the Bible. We were trying to make sense of another vision God gave Zechariah. In this vision, a man is measuring Jerusalem revealing it is […]
The Lord is my strength…Exodus 15:2 Thus begins the second stanza of the Song of Moses as recorded in Exodus 15:1 thru 19. When the people finished the Song of Moses Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron took the timbrel and the women sang the Song of Miriam, and they danced, Exodus 20:20-21. The […]
Commander of the army of the Lord…Joshua 5:14 Chapter 5 reveals the end of manna and the beginning of war. The manna ended when they ate the produce of the land, verse 12. In the land, they celebrated Passover on the fourteenth day of the month as they were instructed to do, verse 10. Then […]
God is with you…Deuteronomy 20:1 This Moses said to Israel as they prepared to enter the land. The land was theirs, just as soon as they took it back. Salvation is a gift, just as soon as you receive it. God appointed a priest to prepare them for battle. Jesus, our high priest, has prepared […]
Perfect in weakness…2 Corinthians 12:9 We are not hanging on to our salvation. God is hanging on to us! God is not remodeling us. We are His finished work; a new creation. Having begun our new life in Christ, we should continue in grace. This is exactly what Paul and Barnabas said in Antioch, Acts […]
Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath? Luke 14:3 Many of the conflicts between Jesus and the Jewish leadership were over the Sabbath. The presence of Jesus challenged their concept of the law. It appears Jesus was grieved by their emphasis on law keeping. Especially since many of the leaders were willing to break […]
Water certainly gives so much, but it also has a very dangerous side. Like the earth must have water, your life as one of faith couldn’t even exist without God’s grace, but those same undeserved blessings are the opposite for the man who hates God. The leaks in a mighty Dam that holds back a […]
Faith as a mustard seed…Matthew 17:20 While Jesus and three of His disciples were on the mountain where He was transfigured before their eyes, the others were trying to heal a young man of epilepsy, Matthew 17: 1 thru 21. Their failure led Jesus to say, because of your unbelief (or little faith) for assuredly, I say to […]
But woe to you, scribes, and Pharisees…Matthew 23:13 Jesus issued a stern warning to the legalists of His day against hypocrisy. For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you all those who are entering to go in, Matthew 23:13. This Jesus said to the religious leaders […]
Tekel…Daniel 5:27 The rest of Daniel 5:27: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting. This was God’s word to Belshazzar, son of Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon. A word written on the wall and interpreted by Daniel before the king. Actually, one of four words: Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. Words unknown to the king but […]