Jonathan Edwards: If we spend our lives in the pursuit of a temporal happiness; as riches or sensual pleasures; credit and esteem from men; delight in our children, and the prospect of seeing them well brought up, and well settled, and etc. All these things will be of...
Chickens, Boaz and Tears: Three Things that will Save your Eternal Life. Have you ever seriously considered the verse, "Away from me, I never knew you!" ? The Lord Jesus uses this warning in to show that not everyone who thinks...
The Principles of the Prophets are the themes of the Bible. Isaiah 66, Verse by Verse In this study we will go verse by verse, as opposed to an overview by color, which we did here. If you are not yet aware of the colors of the Principles of the Prophets, take a look...
It was in Isaiah that I first noted the repeated themes I've been showing here on my blog. The message God burdened Isaiah with was the same one every other prophet spoke, and the same message given by Christ and his apostles. The Principles of the Prophets are the...
Amos Chapters 1 & 2 Noise from Heaven "The Lord roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem...The pastures of the shepherds mourn and the top of Carmel withers" (v 2). God is not pleased. The Day of Judgment has come...or has it? In Amos 1 and 2, God...
The Rainbow Scaffold in Matthew, part 5 (Light Green) We have seen in previous pages that in Matthew 23-24 Christ warns people to repent, to take heed of the state of their souls. He shows that God uses his people to prove the hearts of the nations. Yahweh's plan is...
The Rainbow Scaffold in Matthew, part 4 (Purple) God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. How he was for Jacob is how he is for us. His plans and intentions back then have not changed. Time words in Scripture reflect this over-arching character of God's function...
The Rainbow Scaffold in Matthew, part 3 (Orange) GOD The amazing SIMILE of the HEN deserves its own posting. (Link Will Be Here). Despite of the way Israel unfaithfully treated both Yahweh and his prophets, Yahweh remains open and willing to keep his side of the...
The Rainbow Scaffold in Matthew, part 2 (Green) Christ notes the weights and measures he, as Judge, will compare them to: Justice, Mercy and Faithfulness. The scribes and Pharisees would weigh out the exact amount they owed to God. Christ points out how useless that...
The Rainbow Scaffold in Matthew, part 1 I love it when all the Principles of the Prophets, or the whole Rainbow Scaffold, is found in one passage. (If you are unaware of my ongoing Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin Video series, click here for an overview). Here, in Matthew,...
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