Is 66:8 Who has ever heard of such things? Who has ever seen things like this? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? Yet no sooner is Zion in labor than she gives birth to her children. sooner is Zion in labor than she gives …
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Spring means the harvest is ready
Song of Solomon 2:11-13 See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. The flowers are springing up, the season of singing birds has come, and the cooing of turtledoves fills the air. The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, …
When God changed His mind
I am sure the title raised your eyebrows a bit! Surely God decides matters and then keeps His word? We find these interesting verses in Amos 7: Amos 7:1-3 The Sovereign LORD showed me a vision. I saw him preparing to send a vast swarm of locusts over the land. This was after the king’s …
Daniel’s 70 weeks
God revealed many detailed facts about the end times to His beloved prophet Daniel. Among them was the unfolding of events leading up to the first coming of Israel’s Messiah, and then further into the future, to events in the time of the Antichrist. These are to be found in Daniel 9:24-27 and are well-known …
Our scapegoat
esus fulfilled the first four Feasts of the Lord, which means that he embodied all the elements surrounding them in stunning detail. Let us look at a few events of the Passover Feast to illustrate this. When God gave the instructions for this Feast in Egypt, He instructed the Jews to set aside their lambs …
A peculiar people
Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. What an interesting word: peculiar. Somewhat old-fashioned, which is why it is used abundantly in the King James version, and almost never in more modern translations. The meaning according …
Walk the Damascus Road
Imagine what it was like to be Jewish in the time of Jesus. There were hundreds of laws and regulations which governed every aspect of your life, and which only the very learned rabbis could remember in their entirety – and to do this, they had to devote most of their time throughout their lives …
One of a kind
2 Tim 1:9 He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, “Before the beginning of time”—quite literally means, “before everlasting times”. This is a mind-boggling …
Human wisdom
Judges 7:12 The armies of Midian, Amalek, and the people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts. Their camels were like grains of sand on the seashore—too many to count! If you were an army general, facing an overwhelming enemy army like the one mentioned above on your doorstep, …
Treasure the Holy Spirit
Exodus 31:2-3 See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills— During the time of the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit filled certain men at …