From Isaiah 28 through to Isaiah 33, we have a group of chapters all united by a series of woe judgments. They outline the impending Assyrian invasion of Samaria first, followed by Judah second, and highlight God’s determination to save a remnant through faith whilst punishing those who seek to sa…
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In our last article we saw the remarkable way in which our Lord healed the blind men at Jericho and the language that was used in the divine record to connect that incident with some of the key events that had occurred in that city many years before. The story, however, doesn’t stop with the blind…
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UNESCO claims that Jericho is the oldest inhabited city ever uncovered in the ancient world and geographically, is considered to be the lowest town on earth. In Old Testament times it had a significant part to play in the times of Joshua and the Judges. In the days of Elijah and Elisha there was a s…
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In 1 Kings 2 we read of David’s last personal words to his son Solomon: “Keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou d…
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There is a word used in the New Testament which, of itself, is of no great import. It is the Greek word poikilos and it is the word commonly used to describe “divers” diseases (cp Mark 1:34). The word is also used of the divers miracles of God (Heb 2:4) and of divers and strange doctrines that w…
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At the time of writing, the coronavirus has infected over 100 million people and resulted in more than 2 million deaths. And the toll on human life continues to rise. As a community of believers, we have been remarkably blessed by our heavenly Father during this time of social upheaval and disruptio…
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In the times of Elisha there lived a remarkable man from the area of Baal-Shalisha. The district wasn’t always called by that name. It was originally known just as Shalisha and was noted as the very place where Saul went searching for his father’s lost asses (1 Sam 9:3-4). With Baal worship beco…
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We are all familiar with the promise that God made to Abraham in Genesis 12:2, “I will make of thee a great nation.” In Genesis 18:18, God further expressed the surety of that promise when He said, “Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation.”
This promise has several layers co…
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We often associate the epistle to the Philippians with the theme of joy and rejoicing, and rightly so. But there is another topic that weaves its way through Paul’s letter – and that is predominance of the gospel and the ecclesia’s partnership in preaching and defending it.
Hence in Philippians 1…
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