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... tell of His salvation from day to day

we need to "evangelize" day to day. We need to speak the gospel to others, not just hear it. Not just to the lost, as some kind of "evangelistic" project. Rather, we need to be telling our fellow Christians…

Psalm 96:2 (ESV)

First things

An element of sloppy thinking is the inability to consider that thought and activity proceed from a foundation, or starting point. Pop culture today is completely incapable of thinking things back to…

Deuteronomy 10:12 (ESV)

"I need nothing"

My lifelong lust for money can be summed up there. I want to "need nothing." God is clearly untrustworthy and cannot be relied on and I, the wise Laodicean, have to hedge. I read an article recently on…

Revelation 3:17 (ESV)

DEFIANTLY, In full view, ... for the LORD had brought judgment on their gods

Is that a portent of the final day, God's people who have been spit on, mocked, oppressed and sneered at, go marching out defiantly, in full view? Yeah. The ultimate fulfillment is that day. The sneering…

Numbers 33:3 (NIV), Numbers 33:4 (NIV)

Societal evil, not just abortion and homosexuality and porn..... NOT AT ALL

In a society, God's wrath comes on those who oppress the powerless to enrich themselves. While abortion is clearly an evil where the defenseless are killed for the convenience and selfishness of the more…

Isaiah 10:1 (NIV), Isaiah 10:2 (NIV), Isaiah 10:3 (NIV), Isaiah 10:4 (NIV)

Context, virgins, secularists and Greeks

This is a weird verse. Ahaz is told that the sign God is going to deliver is that a virgin shall conceive. Ok, enough in itself. That ain't weird. A virgin conceives on her wedding night. It happens.…

Isaiah 7:14 (NIV), Isaiah 7:15 (NIV), Isaiah 7:16 (NIV)

I am your inheritance

A nation of priests, it calls us. No inheritance here. God and God alone is our "share" and in Him is everything. I am going to have to think and rethink this. It is impossible that repentance is not…

Numbers 18:20 (NIV)

Job13

Christians should, sometimes SHUT UP! Job nails the religious, the orthodox, the evangelicals who are so terrified that their system will collapse if they face truth that they wind up LYING on behalf…

Leviticus 13

Leprosy was as feared a disease as one could imagine. God did NOT make His people free from it. Message to the redeemed community-->> Life still sucks. It is brutal, hateful, full of sorrow, suffering…

Romans 1 and Proverbs 8

The New Testament is full of things like "the gospel is veiled to those who are perishing" and "suppressing the truth" and "not casting pearls before pigs"........ why? It is because the Old Testament…

Proverbs 8:1 (NIV)

... the one you love is sick

arresting choice of words...... "the one you love." He is sick and you are going to dilly dally and let him DIE. Something is either amiss in God's love or something is operating in a wisdom we cannot…

John 11:3 (NIV)

Jesus is a better Aaron

Note the self-preservation of Aaron, and the willingness to bail on the people entrusted to him. That is me, and that is every person on earth. "It is on them!" he says. Yep. He goes further and lies…

Exodus 32:21 (NIV), Exodus 32:22 (NIV), Exodus 32:23 (NIV), Exodus 32:24 (NIV)

Jesus is a better Moses

Did God really intend to destroy His people, and had to be placated by Moses? What a stupid question! Rather, God is setting up yet another illustration of Jesus, showing us Christ. Note that justice…

Exodus 32:7 (NIV), Exodus 32:9 (NIV), Exodus 32:10 (NIV), Exodus 32:11 (NIV), Exodus 32:12 (NIV), Exodus 32:13 (NIV), Exodus 32:14 (NIV)

Instituional Idolatry

Note that the formalization and institutionalization of a relationship with God INVARIABLY leads to idolatry. This is no reason to become a religious anarchist, as some institutions are clearly ordained,…

Exodus 32:2 (NIV), Exodus 32:3 (NIV), Exodus 32:4 (NIV)

I have filled him with the Spirit of God

for evangelism? As a powerful preacher or singer? NO! as an ARTIST. He emulated God as the master artist in skills of art, to create beauty, aesthetics, and creative and beautiful designs, for thus is…

Exodus 31:3 (NIV)

My hour has not yet come

Interesting response. Jesus mom is bringing a real social tragedy to his attention. It was clearly important and a wedding planner was certainly to be fired (lol!). The thing of note is that Jesus is…

John 2:4 (KJV)

Everyone in the camp trembled

.... and there is no fear of God in any sense in today's Christianity....., at least in the west. It is an appropriate prayer that our intimacy with God (vv 4-6 in this chapter) be against the background…

Exodus 19:16 (KJV)

How I brought you to myself.....

This is the heartbeat of the covenant. God rescuing, pursuing, caring for his people. Immanuel, "GOD WITH US" is the great passion of God. It is a huge mistake to separate this from the Pentateuch. Seeing…

Exodus 19:4 (KJV)

Beware of turning to evil,which you seem to prefer to affliction.

21Beware of turning to evil,which you seem to prefer to affliction. Wow. If Elihu does not nail my heart here, nothing does. It is all roses and rainbows with me and God when all is cool and happy. Let…

Job 36:21 (KJV)

Untitled Note

Interesting that the oldest book of the bible, indeed one of the oldest pieces of literature extant, mentions homosexual prostitution as an element of religious activity.

Job 36:14 (KJV)

70AD and the end of the world

There is a DISTINCT and DEFINITE shift from v 24-25. The events up to v 24 are clearly and unambiguously referring to the events surrounding the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 under Titus. "End of the…

Luke 21:24 (KJV), Luke 21:25 (KJV)

Just the ordinary crap of life with people

People lied, defrauded, broke contracts, violated trusts..., got drunk and assaulted, and in short did all the things sinful people do that occupy our courts today. People, even redeemed people (and there…

Exodus 18:13 (KJV)

Spiritual discernment

Jesus talks about "getting it" in vv 21 and following. v 25 is a stopper. He says that not only is it possible to "hear" him and yet not hear him at the same time, but if you are not "moving" toward greater…

Mark 4:25 (KJV)

Joseph, Mordecai, Daniel, Nehemiah

These men are patterns for us in the New Testament. They are godly men, working in godless cultures. NOTE THAT THERE IS NO HINT THAT THEY SEEK TO EXTEND DEUTERONOMIC LAW TO THESE PAGAN LANDS. This law…

Esther 10:3 (KJV)

Purim

Haman was an enemy of God, not just the Jews. He cast the PUR as a means of divination to help him attack God (the Jews, which was as close as he could get). Note the cosmic irony. THE JEWS NAME THEIR…

Esther 9:24 (KJV)