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Perhaps the Book of the Prophet Zephaniah is skipped over by some who would rather not hear its proclamations of judgment: judgment on Judah (Zeph 1); judgment on the Gentile nations (Zeph 2:4-15); judgement on Jerusalem (Zeph 3:1-7); judgment on the nations: “All the earth shall be devoured with the fire of My jealousy.” (Zeph [...]

“They don’t know how to cry,” I heard the Spirit whisper. Some of God’s people don’t know how to cry. Maybe that was one of the problems with the Laodicean church. (Revelation 3:14-22) Maybe a preoccupation with material wealth had quenched the Spirit which would have moved them to tears had they recognized their spiritually [...]

INTRODUCTION When I was a baby Christian, a Bible teacher was inquiring which books we would like to study. I chimed in, “Isaiah!” His comment, however, was in the negative, saying it was a lot of dry history and judgments. That was certainly not my take on the prophet. Even as young in the Lord as I [...]

The 144 thousand of Revelation 14:4 praise and pray with Psalm 144 and the LORD God of Israel answers with what is prophesied in Zechariah 14:4 !!!! Read it for yourself!  (Rev 14:4; Zech 14:4; Psalm 144:5 particularly)  Is this not amazing???   Yet Christ’s triumphant Return will be more than amazing!!! Psalm 144: 1.  Praise to prepare for war (v. 1-2) [...]

I have to admit that often I skim over the salutations of the epistles to get to the “meat”.  But what precious nuggets are even in the greetings!  What an appetizer we have here! Romans 1:1-4 A major doctrine of authentic* Christianity is that Jesus Christ was both human and divine, both man and God.  [...]

Yesterday, on the eve of election (11-1-10), we gathered, as I’m sure many saints did, to intercede for America. Everything we prayed was somehow related to a return to righteousness in this land, a land provided by Almighty God so that we may live in liberty, free to worship and free to prosper. We prayed for [...]

Perhaps you’ve heard the cliché “the oldest lie in the book” referring sometimes to “the check’s in the mail” but “the oldest lie in the book” is literally in the Book of Beginnings, the book of Genesis. It is spoken by the “father of lies”, satan. Satan’s opening line, posed as a question (Gen 3:1), [...]

“Be wise as serpents…”  Matthew 10:16 Not only does the Word give us guidance as to how to live righteously but it also gives us insight as to how evil operates. I suspect this is in the hope that we should avoid coming under the rule of unrighteous men. In Judges 9, we read how [...]

This morning at the piano, I was singing Charles Wesley’s “And Can It Be?” . His last verse ends “Bold I approach th’eternal throne, and claim the crown, through Christ, my own”. How glorious to have a crown….but Revelation 4:10  says the twenty-four elders (will we not follow their example?) will lay them at His feet….so I [...]

i’ve been at the verge conference about missional living for the past few days. it was really good to get my mind more focused on living on mission for Christ and church planting. here are just a few of the many, many take-away points… if you love your mission more than your Savior, your Savior will [...]

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street. (Lamentations 2:19) LET THE CHILDREN There is a sinister, ugly spirit, a [...]

Rev 4:6 I decided to take up a generous offer from my dear, generous friend to stay at her lake house. For a couple days before Christmas, I was up here alone with the Lord. I spent much time writing but I have also relaxed outside under the blue sky communing with Abba and enjoying [...]

Satan doesn’t have a creative bone in him.  He is an imitator, but when he imitates he perverts. Revelation 13 and Rev 20:2 reveal the corrupt alliance of dragon, beast, and false prophet which tries to imitate the Holy Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. ♦ While we may not fathom the depths of [...]

I just read a good article by John Piper: How Willingly Do People Go to Hell . In it, he challenges C.S. Lewis’ statements about hell: that “all that are in hell choose it” and “all God does in the end with people is give them what they most want.” John Piper makes very good arguments to [...]

John, in Revelation 9:1-11, describes a woe against mankind produced by the sounding of the trumpet of the fifth angel.  The angel releases a horde of locusts upon the earth.  The description of the locusts indicate that they are evil and controlled by evil.  First they come out of a bottomless pit from where smoke [...]

In Revelation 7 John tells us that four angels are told to withhold judgment until the servants of God are sealed.  There are 144,000 servants to seal from the children of Israel.  In John’s vision he received an enumeration of the tribes and he recorded it by the Holy Spirit’s direction.  So there is something [...]