Tag: Lord
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That you may have Certainty in these Uncertain Times
Certainty? Who has Any Good News? Luke addresses uncertainty in uncertain times with a comforting witness: .. many have undertaken .. a narrative .. from eyewitnesses .. .. it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, .. that you may have certainty concerning the…
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Your Mistake – You don’t know the Scriptures – 2
Jesus replied, “Your mistake is that you don’t know the Scriptures, and you don’t know the power of God. Matthew 22:29 NLT Pharisees We began this series with the priest of the second Temple Ezra, Looking Back at times preceding the fall of Jerusalem and the first Temple. Continuing with contrasts of Looking Back in real…
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Looking Back – The Evil Before US, a history from Ezra
Ezra, Looking Back Picture the priest Ezra speaking to the builders and worshipers in Jerusalem: You know well how we have come to this place and the work which is before us. In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled,…
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Looking Back – Chronicles of the Years
“So nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with every adversity. – 2 Chronicles 15:6 NKJV Chronicles is more than just recording the history of the hebrew people. Kings and other historical books of the Bible record the events of a nation. Why would someone write out a history…
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WE do not presume
God’s Righteous Judgment Romans 2: .. do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment…
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Time Beyond Years – Alpha
Time before the beginning ‘I AM the alpha and the omega,” says the LORD! What can it mean? Can you, o man, measure the time before the beginning? The alpha of man’s measurement of days and years: Consider generations, centuries, the millennia of temporal days beginning with the creation of man. How can the created…
