The disciples must have been astounded at what Jesus told them during what we know as the Olivet Discourse. They had exclaimed about the grandeur of the temple, and He told them it would be completely destroyed. They asked when that would happen and what the sign indicating the temple’s destruction would be, and He…
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Deuteronomy 9:3 – A Consuming Fire
God created us with an ego, but that sure can get out of hand! The Oxford English dictionary says about ego that it’s “a person’s sense of self-esteem or self-importance.” Certainly the self-esteem part of the definition is critical simply so we can function on a daily basis. We have to feel a sense of…
Deuteronomy 7:14 – Blessed Above All Peoples
The Lord wanted to bless His children Israel. He told them time and again all that He wanted to do for them. When they responded positively to His giving them the Ten Commandments, listen to the yearning of Yahweh’s heart in Deuteronomy 5:29: “Oh that they had such a heart as this always, to fear…
Numbers 35:33 – Blood Pollutes the Land
Some of the final instructions to the Israelites before they crossed the Jordan River into the land of Canaan gave them important principles that we in modern times should have heeded, but did not. They display the character and intent of God, which ultimately His people ignored, and which we likewise have disdained in the…
Numbers 33:55 – Trouble in the Land
Because of what the Israelites had learned in Egypt over their 400 years of captivity, Yahweh had a deconditioning project to accomplish with them. They had been in the midst of a pantheon of pagan gods and gotten used to deities whose image they could see. The verbal history of their people had probably taken…
Mark 9:2 – Satan On Notice
As is often the case in Scripture, more is going on behind the scenes in many passages we read than first meets the eye. This is particularly true of the episode known as The Transfiguration. The account begins in Mark 9:2 which says: And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and…