“Come, let us return to the LORD. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore
Continue reading...This is what the LORD Almighty says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the LORD’s house.’” Then the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai: “Is it a time
Continue reading...O Lord my God, my Holy One, you who are eternal— surely you do not plan to wipe us out? O Lord, our Rock, you have sent these Babylonians to correct us, to punish us for our many sins. But you are
Continue reading...So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD Almighty. (Zechariah 4:6) One of the consistent messages of the Old Testament
Continue reading...When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. But the more they were called, the more they went away from me. (Hosea 11:1,2) Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, you house of David!
Continue reading...Yahweh has had one of the worst marriages possible! Jeremiah 3 chronicles some of it: “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, should he return to her again? Would
Continue reading...What is God’s standard for marriage? What is it He desires to see as a reflection of His relationship to His people in the lives of married couples? Surely He requires us to keep our vow of lifelong
Continue reading...The book of Proverbs teaches us the value of wisdom, but in addition it teaches us how to seek it. There are at least three perspectives Proverbs gives us in this regard: 1. Wisdom is only acquired
Continue reading...We have a record of the private thoughts of saints made public in the Psalms. And some of the things they utter to God seem blasphemous to us. For example: Why, LORD, do you stand far off? Why do you
Continue reading...Recognize the value of silent sympathy. (Job 2:12,13; 13:5) Like God, be able to show kindness even to those who are suffering for their own sins. (Job 6:14-23) Beware of pious platitudes which ease
Continue reading...Job’s “friends” did a masterful job of comforting Job those first seven days (see article). But when Job broke the silence (Job 3) and began to rue the day of his birth, their demeanor
Continue reading...When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement
Continue reading...It is difficult to overestimate the weight God gives to leadership in the Old Testament. It begins with Adam, who is the representative leader for all of mankind. His decision to act in accord with
Continue reading...That night all the members of the community raised their voices and wept aloud. All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, “If only we had died in Egypt!
Continue reading...Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field. (Exodus 23:16b) So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered
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