January – February 2024
One of David’s final battles with the uncircumcised Philistines is described in 2 Samuel 5. He had just been anointed king at Hebron and the enemy seized that opportunity to strike quickly and remove him from his newly acquired throne: “When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David kin…
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It was around AD90 when the Apostle John sent a letter (which we know as the third epistle of John) to Gaius. The ageing apostle opens his letter fondly, describing Gaius as well beloved and someone whom he truly loves.
He repeats the title “beloved” again in verse 2: “Beloved, I wish above…
Be like Gaius (not like Diotrephes) Read More »
Jehoahaz: the favoured of Judah
Towards the end of the reign of Josiah, God ensured an intensity of prophetic work so that there were four contemporary prophets all simultaneously warning Judah of the judgment that was about to befall them.1 This was no accident.
Judah had stubbornly rejected …
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Introduction
2:1-10 – Yahweh hath done this;
2:11-19 – Jeremiah speaks to Jerusalem: thrown down and not pitied;
2:20-22 – Jerusalem speaks: prayer.
The first song of Lamentations introduces Jerusalem’s affliction and the sin that was the source of the problem. We find Je…
Leviticus 23 outlines the various feasts celebrated under the law, as well as events observed during that period. The feasts and events are broken down as follows:
The passover (v4-5)
The feast of unleavened bread (v6-8)
The sheaf of the firstfruits (v9-14)
The feast of weeks (v15-21)
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“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it” — Abraham Lincoln.
What a wise saying! If only we all would follow it. We don’t want to wear our feelings on our sleeves so that if someone just looks at us cross-eyed, we become offended. We also need to be conscious of the …
“Nothing shall offend them” Read More »
1Situated in the Indian Ocean, Madagascar is the fourth-largest island in the world. Annexed by France in 1897, it gained its independence in 1960. But very few people know that the Nazis had a plan for the resettlement in Madagascar of Jews.
The Nazis’ aim was to make all of Europe free of Jew…
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The third seal
“When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand.” (Rev 6:5 ESV1)
The black horse
In the black horse epoch of the third seal we see the natural c…
The Caesars in the Apocalypse (5) Read More »
The Joseph syndrome
When you scour the Bible to examine the lives of men who ‘made it’ in terms of this life, what you find is that those who did, never intended to. Take, for example, the young man Joseph, who shot up to the heights of the Egyptian society (Gen 41:40-45).
If you contempla…
Seek Ye First (27) Read More »
From a prophetic perspective we know from Ezekiel that when Russia and her allies invade Isael, “Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silve…
Will the Abraham Accords Still Work? Read More »
