“Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoices over Rezin and the son of Remaliah, therefore the Lord is about to bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—the...
We sometimes hear about Israel’s exodus from Egypt into the wilderness and ultimately the promise land as a metaphor for salvation, and the new birth. And of course, it is. Click here to read...
“. . . but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die” Genesis 2:17. We are told in this...
“How awful that day will be! No other will be like it. It will be a time of trouble for Jacob,but he will be saved out of it. “‘In that day,’ declares the Lord Almighty, ‘I will break the...
. . . caraway is beaten out with a rod, and cumin with a stick. Grain must be ground to make bread. . . Isaiah 28: 27a, 28b. This passage alludes to how spices...
“The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into...
“Now stop your mocking, or your chains will become heavier; the Lord, the Lord Almighty, has told me of the destruction decreed against the whole land” Isaiah 28:22. Isaiah was a powerful prophet who lived in the...
“. . . he [humans] will crush your [the serpent’s] head, and you will strike his heel” Genesis 3:15b. This short passage is part of the curse God pronounced upon the serpent in the Garden...
“A rod and a reprimand impart wisdom, but a child left undisciplined disgraces its mother” Proverbs 29:15. This verse is talking about the discipline of children, but I believe it can also apply to...
When Moses went and told the people all the Lord’s words and laws, they responded with one voice, “Everything the Lord has said we will do” Exodus 24:3. I think it’s interesting that the Israelites always said they’d...