Revelation 4: 1-5….Many Questions

After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven,Continue reading “Revelation 4: 1-5….Many Questions”

Exodus 5: 19-23….God, are You sure that You’re doing this right?

The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in trouble when they said, “You shall by no means reduce your number of bricks, your daily task each day.” They met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them, as they came out from Pharaoh; and they said to them, “The LORD lookContinue reading “Exodus 5: 19-23….God, are You sure that You’re doing this right?”

Exodus 5: 10-18….The New Law is announced!

So the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will not give you straw. Go and get your straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least.’” So the people were scattered throughout all the landContinue reading “Exodus 5: 10-18….The New Law is announced!”

Exodus 5: 1-9….The first ‘rough patch’.

Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’” But Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD,Continue reading “Exodus 5: 1-9….The first ‘rough patch’.”

Exodus 4: 27-31….God prepares the ground

The LORD said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him. And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD with which he had sent him to speak, and all the signs that he had commanded him to do.Continue reading “Exodus 4: 27-31….God prepares the ground”

Exodus 4: 18-26….A few unexpected details added.

Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.” And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seekingContinue reading “Exodus 4: 18-26….A few unexpected details added.”

Exodus 4: 10-17….Moses finds more excuses!

But Moses said to the LORD, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.” Then the LORD said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind?Continue reading “Exodus 4: 10-17….Moses finds more excuses!”

Exodus 4: 1-9….Moses asks “who’ll listen?”

Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The LORD did not appear to you.’” The LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.” And he said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on theContinue reading “Exodus 4: 1-9….Moses asks “who’ll listen?””

Revelation 3: 14-22….Does this fit the 21st century church?

“And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation.“‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spitContinue reading “Revelation 3: 14-22….Does this fit the 21st century church?”

Revelation 3: 7-13….Not a negative word!

“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.“‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is ableContinue reading “Revelation 3: 7-13….Not a negative word!”