"Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom."
The prophecy of Micah opens with a declaration of coming judgment upon the northern kingdom of Israel (Samaria) and the southern kingdom of Judah (Jerusalem), and the cause of this judgment is listed as premeditated crime, covetousness, fraud, and lying prophets (1:1–2:11). Nevertheless, there is a word of hope in God’s promises of regathering and …
It is God’s desire Is this not the fast You have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the cords of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free and break every yoke? Is it not to share our food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter; when …
Prophecy is the most irrefutable evidence In the context of the prophecy of the coming of Cyrus (as confirmed in history) we find this statement: 20 “Come, gather together,and approach, you fugitives of the nations.Those who carry their wooden idolsand pray to a god who cannot savehave no knowledge.21 Speak up and present your case[i]—yes, …
Pride goes before destruction,and a haughty spirit before a fall.(Proverbs 16:18) When I am blessed with abundance,I will beware lest my heart becomes proud,and I forget the Lord my God who provided all goodthings, thinking that it was my power and the strengthof my hand that brought this wealth.(Deuteronomy 8:12–14, 17)
12 Therefore, whatever you want others to do for you, do also the same for them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. Matthew 7:12 I will owe nothing to anyone except to love them, for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You …
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With only 21 verses, Obadiah is the shortest book in the Old Testament, and yet it is a complete message with the twin prophetic themes of condemnation (1–16) and consolation (17–21; the consolation portion concerns Judah, not Edom). The burden of Obadiah is a pronouncement of inescapable doom upon the Edomites (Esau) because they looked …
Amos is an extraordinarily concise and penetrating prophet who multiplies oracles and images to hammer home the solemn theme of inescapable judgment. Only in the last five verses is there a message of hope and promise. The three promises at the end of the book (9:11–15) are that God will restore the line of David, …
Description of the Day Joel 2 Christian Standard Bible (CSB)2 Blow the ram’s horn in Zion;sound the alarm on my holy mountain!Let all the residents of the land tremble,for the day of the Lord is coming;in fact, it is near—2 a day of darkness and gloom,a day of clouds and total darkness,like the dawn spreading …