Tomorrow many of us will be sitting at a table laden with traditional Thanksgiving foods and offering up ways we are grateful. Perhaps it is only one thing we can be thankful for, perhaps many. But, some of us will not have a place to go, or a table spread for us.
Revelation 18: Come Out, My People
Then I heard another voice out of the sky saying, โCome out, my people, out of her, in order that you all will not have fellowship in and partake of her sins, in order that you would not take hold of her wounds. โBecause her sins have been following close to her as far as … Continue reading Revelation 18: Come Out, My People
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Isaiah 59: Sin Separates
Why Are You Not Responding, God? In the previous chapter, Isaiah quoted the people imploring God, โWhy do we fast, but you do not see? Why humble ourselves, but you do not notice?โ Isaiah 58:3 (NRSVUE, italics added) Isaiah had much to say about their supplication in light of their lack of heeding Godโs word. It … Continue reading Isaiah 59: Sin Separates
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Isaiah 33: Sennacherib’s Duplicity
The way to receive from the Lord is to open our minds, hearts, spirits, and hands and then put to use by faith what the Lord gives.
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Revelation 4: A Throne in Heaven
Once John was finished taking down the seven lettersโafter these thingsโthe scene changes dramatically. John looks up as a portal opens in the sky, and the sound of a trumpet-like voice invites him to come up into heaven.
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Isaiah 6: Here Am I, Send Me!
Once Isaiah answered God's call, the Lord revealed to him how hard it would be--it was a prophetic utterance that would be repeated many times by other Hebrew prophets as well as all four Gospel writers, and the Apostle Paul.
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Isaiah 5: Prophetic Warning
It would be another one hundred years and more before Godโs judgment would come, years of noticeable decline for Judah as they continued to ignore their prophets and disregard Godโs word.
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Isaiah 5: God’s Lament
Devoting all our time to looking good and feeling good, to pursuing our own ambitions, and working situations out for our own good at the expense of others, will end up in compromising Godโs righteousness.
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Isaiah 5: Ah, the Sorrow
Isaiah spoke of Godโs anger, but he began with Godโs deep sorrow, with a Hebrew word, ืืึบื | hรดy, that is translated as ah!, alas!, ha!, ho!, O!, woe! It is meant as a cry of pain, and of lament.
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Isaiah 4: The Beautiful Branch
The Branch has come in fulfillment of many prophecies, and He has given us His promise to return.
