Old Testament
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God’s Word isn’t just a gentle whisper or a comforting light—it’s an unstoppable fire. Like Jeremiah, who described God’s message as a burning flame he couldn’t contain, we discover that the truth of God is powerful, disruptive, and impossible to ignore. When the Word grips you, it compels you to speak and act, no matter…
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Jeremiah wept for a faithless nation, bore their guilt, and was hated for telling the truth. Sound familiar? His life points forward to Jesus—the ultimate Prophet who didn’t just warn, but saved. This essay explores how Jeremiah’s sorrow, rejection, and burden foreshadow the mission of Christ.
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There’s a familiar comfort in the idea that God keeps His promises. Many of us hold onto verses of reassurance and hope, the kinds that speak of restoration, rescue, and future blessing (Psalm 119:50; Romans 15:4). But the Bible won’t let us forget the other side of the coin: God also keeps the promises that…
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God always comes to man first in grace, and it’s for His sake not for our sake.
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(Revelation 18:4-24) Then, “I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people,” – this is a direct allusion to Jeremiah 51:6, 9, 45 that dealt with the Jews returning from their exile in Babylon, and it’s just an allusion to that. It seems to be God or Christ is speaking here,…
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“…The righteousness of a righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble because of it in the day when he turns from his wickedness;…” Ezekiel 33:12 The man who is wicked, the man who lies, cheats, and steals, and…
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I don’t think the basic predisposition of God is judgment. I think the basic stance of God is love (cf. Ezek. 33:11). Some people view God as the ‘Hanging Judge of the universe’ that has a big gavel ready to smash you like a bug if you step out of line. He’s just waiting to…
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Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman… Ezekiel 33:2-9 BEING A WATCHMAN – A TREMENDOUS JOY, A TREMENDOUS RESPONSIBILITYI think it’s very…
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Bible authors try to communicate deep spiritual truths to us by using very common illustrations of life; familiar things like a ‘sower’, ‘vine’, a ‘fig tree’, a ‘vineyard and its workers, and many more that will try to show us an analogous relationship to spiritual truths. The 33rd chapter of Ezekiel uses a very common…
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In their book entitled “How To Read The Bible For All It’s Worth”, the authors make a statement in there, and it shocked me when I first read it. I think it’s true that 95% of the Old Testament prophecies have already been fulfilled in the Incarnation. Only 5% of Old Testament prophecies are future.…