y. Sometimes, God Who knows and understands our weakness and woe, does not deliver us from our pain, but rather delivers us through our pain.
Advent Meditation: Almighty God
In her jubilation, Hannah employed a well-known symbol of triumph of her dayโthe call of the shofar proclaiming military victory and release from oppression.
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December Advent Devotional
As you and I meditate on these words, let us think about the names all heaven and earth gave to this tiny, vulnerable baby, Who is God the Son.
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Minor Prophets: The Book of Malachi
Malachi may be associated with the jackal, which features early in his book, for God had left Edom to jackals, yet now Godโs own people were acting like jackals.
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Minor Prophets: Zechariah, The Final Oracle
These last three chapters are Second Zechariahโs second oracle, describing the completion of Godโs plan from the beginning, from before the creation of the world. When God gave Godโs people the seven feasts described in Exodus, they were each prophetic of Godโs plan of salvation. So far, four of those feasts have been fulfilled in Christ, and chapters 12-14 reflect the fulfillment to come of the last three feasts.
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Minor Prophets: Zechariah, Vision Seven
As Zechariah was gazing on the wreckage of what sin does in peopleโs lives, the vision changed to a woman in a basket, moving through the sky, over the land.
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Minor Prophets: Zechariah, Vision Five, PART 2
The angel had freely revealed what the rest of the vision meant. But what of the two trees? That would note be disclosed till the last verse.
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Minor Prophets: Zechariah, Vision Four, PART 2
Satan twisted the truth to his own ends, and God rebuked him.
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Minor Prophets: Zechariah, Vision Four, PART 1
Zechariah had now received one of the great Messianic prophecies in the Hebrew scriptures.
