To Nahum, God likened the Assyrians to cruel lions, strangling and dragging their prey into their bloody city. Now the righteous lion, the lion of Judah, would put right all the wrong that Assyria had committed.
Minor Prophets: Zephaniah Look Beyond
Zephaniah 3:17-20 is the fulfillment of human longing. At last, those who love God and have put their faith God, will find themselves fully restored in a glorious life that will be lived fully in communion with God, in the peace, and love, and joy of the Lord.
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Minor Prophets: Zephaniah, Look Around
Every person has been given the outward revelation of a Creator with eternal power and divine nature, and the inward revelation of God’s righteousness and justice, carried within their own hearts.
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Minor Prophets: Zephaniah, Look Above
Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who do his commands; seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the Lord’s wrath.
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Gospel of John: Lamb of God Judged
If God did not judge sin it would mean that God was indifferent to the existence of right and wrong, good and evil. But the Lord is not indifferent. God's wrath, grief, and intense pain over sin is the necessary and only right response.
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Minor Prophets: Habakkuk’s Questions
There is no power in all the physical world or the spiritual realm that is not ultimately under the authority and dominion of Almighty God. Things are not always what they appear to be.
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Gospel of John: Penalty, Power, Presence
It is the work of the Holy Spirit to convict hearts and reveal truth to minds. Our work is to love.
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Gospel of John: The Ruler of this World
God’s mighty deliverance of the world through the cross held echoes of the ancient contest God entered into with the powerful gods of Egypt.
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Gospel of John: Three Concerns
This is good news for humankind, for we have been trying to appease angry gods for all of our recorded history.
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Minor Prophets: Obadiah, Edom’s Pride
The final meeting between Edom and Israel happened when the many greats grandson of Esau, King Herod had before him the many greats grandson of Jacob, Jesus Christ.
