HER STORY: Kings and Queens, Jezebel

Just the word โ€œjezebelโ€ evokes a whole evil, erotic, seductive mystique, doesnโ€™t it? I looked โ€œjezebelโ€ up in the dictionary, and hereโ€™s what Webster-Merriam has to say: โ€œan impudent, shameless, or morally unrestrained woman.โ€ According to other definitions, A jezebel is a wicked, evil, scheming female who is manipulates her victims into giving her wealth, … Continue reading HER STORY: Kings and Queens, Jezebel

Revelation 11: The Two Witnesses (Futurist and Spiritual Views)

Some are certain Johnโ€™s Revelation is about the end of human history. Others take a broader view that Johnโ€™s Revelation has to do primarily with spiritual things believers of every era and culture will benefit from. #Revelation11 #TwoWitnesses

Revelation 11: The Two Witnesses (Historical and Preterist Views)

The Two Witnesses are something of a conundrum for expositors looking to history for fulfillment. Were they actual people (some think so), or representative of groups of people? Maybe they're allegories for truth? #TwoWitnesses #Revelation11

Isaiah 26: The Dead Shall Rise

Perhaps praying about the two paths drew Isaiahโ€™s mind to the kings of Israel and Judah, for they represented those pathsโ€”the road of righteousness and the way of the wicked.

Tel Sheva

Be'er Sheva (Beer-sheba) was so well-known in acinet Israel it became part of a saying meant to comprise the whole of the land, "From Dan to Beer-Sheba."

Minor Prophets: Zechariah, Finish With A Flourish!

Now, at last, this final vision rests on a time of great celebration, when all shall be made โ€œHoly to the Lord.โ€

Hebrews: Five-Fold Response of Faith

After delivering the astonishing declaration that the veil torn at the moment of Jesusโ€™ death was nothing less than Christโ€™s body torn asunder, throwing open the gates of heaven to every person, the author offered five ways every Christian responds to the magnificent good news of the Gospel.

James: True Freedom

To experience the exhilaration of true freedom, you and I will first need to learn and master restraint, self-control. True freedom is foundโ€”quixotically, counterintuitivelyโ€”in full surrender to the sovereignty of God.

2 Peter 1, True Testimony

Peter gave his own eyewitness account of having seen Jesusโ€™ transfiguration, resurrection, and ascension, and of actually having heard the voice of Almighty God, rolling down as thunder from heaven, approving Godโ€™s Son at Jesusโ€™ baptism, and at Jesusโ€™ transfiguration.

2 Peter 1: Transfiguration

Jesusโ€™ glory was not reflected light, he was radiating light from within himself. He was a man, yet from his inner being flowed the shekinah glory of Jehovah God.ย