Dec 6, 2022
AMOS 3-4:
As I
said about Amos yesterday, he was wise in his methods. He condemned
Syria, the Philistines, Tyre, Edom, Ammon, and Moab before coming
around to Judah and finally the northern kingdom, Israel. We also
heard some of the wonderful word pictures Amos used.
ISAIAH 45:22-46.
Remember that in the last chapter...
Dec 5, 2022
AMOS 1-2:
If
you are new to reading the Bible, I hope that you will remember the
events and expressions that Joel used. One or two ideas were
repeated by Jesus in the Gospels, and we will soon see how
important Joel’s predictions are in Revelation.
We turn now to Amos, whose name means ‘burden bearer’. Amos— like...
Dec 4, 2022
JOEL 2:28-3:
An
attack by an army of locusts must be so frightening! What
descriptions! And even worse when God is bringing the attack as an
act of judgement. Yet Joel offers hope. He encourages the people to
come back to God and beg for the Lord’s help. We will pick up today
re-reading the famous part of Joel...
Dec 3, 2022
JOEL 1:
I
feel the need to comment about chapter 9 of Esther and how the Jews
“got rid” of their enemies. Remember that those Jews were not
Christians. (I know how silly that sounds, but it is actually a
common supposition among naive Christians.) The revelation of God’s
will did not come all at once, and the Jews...
Dec 2, 2022
ESTHER 9-10:
We have heard how Esther’s request was granted,
the king and Haman came to the second banquet, where Esther
revealed her identity. The eunuch Harbona just happened to have
pertinent information about Haman’s plans for Mordecai, and Haman
was killed and impaled/hanged on the pole he had planned to
use...