Category: TalkofJESUS.com – OLD Testament
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COVID – the Affliction of Social Distancing
Solomon’s Jerusalem – the end of an era Until the death of Solomon in 931 B.C., a glorious city of Jerusalem overlooked a great empire blessed by the LORD God, but then the politics of Israel divided the great land. In just a few generations Israel (Samaria) succumbed in 722 B.C. and Judah when Jerusalem…
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A Day of the silence of the Passover Lamb
The Son of Man is Slain From the day the Son of Man is delivered into the world and laid in a manger the shadow of the Cross foretold Christ’s Sacrifice. And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full…
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12 Men Texting as their Messiah approaches – Part 1
If you could TEXT 12 men or women about Jesus Christ, would you? Do you SHARE the Good News of JESUS with a ‘christian’ friend or 12 men you know or dozens of men and women who have questions about the Gospel? Worship of the Son of God! You likely know the narratives of 21st…
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Amos the Seer: “I told you so (5x) – GOD showed me
I told you so! Don’t we hate to hear it? While occupied in our own daily trespasses we stop up our ears to any who would warn of our sins: “Thus the Lord GOD showed me, and behold…” And to make things worse, in the day of our demise the seer such as Amos could…
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Amos – For those who turn justice into wormwood
Whatever is wormwood? Sometimes when we read the Bible, especially the Old Testament and specifically the true Prophets of Scripture, we fail in the imagery of the language of centuries and millennia long past. Amos uses a word “לַעֲנָה” we translate into English as wormwood and most of us naturally ask, “whatever is wormwood?” Truly,…
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Amos – Not immune from judgment
We interrupt the Good News of John for an urgent warning from the Prophet Amos. “Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, And I will destroy it from the face of the earth Amos 9:8a NASB We are NOT IMMUNE to the #pandemic of sin! A familiar forgotten history Even…
