Zechariah 1-7 Return and Be Blessed The OT prophets have a recurring theme for the Jews: they must return to God and His ways in order for Him to bless them. They remind the Jews that way back in Moses’ time, God clearly told them how He would bless them, and here it is again […]
Daniel 7-9 Do you find waiting hard? We want it now! Daniel lived and moved in time when life moved at a snail’s pace in comparison to today. He saw kingdoms rise and fall, and he had a front-row seat to it all. He may have wondered, as I often do, why God is delaying […]
Joel 1-3 Climate Change is the buzzword of the day. We hear about it and are reminded that the cause is humans and their thirst for fossil fuels. Yet, in the years 1930-1939, the USA experienced what has been termed the Dust Bowl. It was because the farmers in the Midwest over-plowed and removed the […]
Ezek 45: The picture of the shed blood begins in Exodus as a picture of God’s overarching protection. Ezekiel is told that in the future, the priests will reinstitute that practice, and it mirrors that of Exodus 12, where the angel of death would see the shed blood and pass over the household on the […]
Ezekiel 44 No matter whether you are a member of a church, social group, or a place, there are some people who are considered to be a part of the inner circle. These people are the ones “in the know.” They may know the news before others or have been given special status. Did you […]
Ezekiel 40-41 For Such a Time as This This phrase was given to Queen Esther when she hesitated to speak to her husband, the king, about Haman’s treachery. Mordecai told her that perhaps she had been put in her position ‘for such a time as this.’ She asked her maids to fast (and we imagine, […]
Ezek 28-31 Destiny Throughout history, there have risen many leaders who boasted of their prowess and their accomplishments. King Solomon warns that those who self-exalt will be humbled, and as it was written, so it came to be. Nebuchadnezzar boasted of the city Babylon as the work of his hands and spent the next 7 […]
Ezekiel 22 Standing in the Gap As the prophet of God, Ezekiel uses great illustrations to grab our attention and help the exiles understand their problem before a holy God. One is this statement: Eze 22:30: “I looked for a man from among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me […]
Lamentations 4-5 Jeremiah takes us on a whirlwind tour of the destruction of Jerusalem, and we “walk” with him through the ruins of what was once a beautiful city. Not too long ago, as we walked through Ephesus, it was like seeing what might have been, and it was so in Jerusalem. The beauty and […]
Lamentations 1-3 God is… The author is not named, but most scholars attribute this book to Jeremiah because of the many times he ‘laments.’ in his book. He laments the end of Jerusalem; he has been at this task for 40+/- yrs. The faithfulness of Jeremiah is a challenge to us also to be faithful […]
