1 Woe is me! For I have becomeas when the summer fruit has been gathered,as when the grapes have been gleaned:there is no cluster to eat,no first-ripe fig that my soul desires.2 The godly has perished from the earth,and there is no one upright among mankind;they all lie in wait for blood,and each hunts theContinue reading “Micah 7: 1-10….Dangerous Days!”
Category Archives: Judgement
Micah 6: 8-16….Two Alternative Ways to Live!
8 He has told you, O man, what is good;and what does the LORD require of youbut to do justice, and to love kindness,and to walk humbly with your God?We dealt with the above glorious call of how to please God, yesterday. Today deals with God’s attitude to wickedness!9 The voice of the LORD criesContinue reading “Micah 6: 8-16….Two Alternative Ways to Live!”
Micah 6: 1-8….Sitting in the Court of Heaven!
Introduction: There must have been a pretty severe outcry against God for Him to institute a Court and call all of nature (the mountains and the hills) to be the jury! 1 Hear what the LORD says:Arise, plead your case before the mountains,and let the hills hear your voice.2 Hear, you mountains, the indictment ofContinue reading “Micah 6: 1-8….Sitting in the Court of Heaven!”
Micah 3: 1-12….Nothing but gloom!
1 And I said:Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice?—2 you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people and their flesh from off their bones,3 who eat the flesh of my people, andContinue reading “Micah 3: 1-12….Nothing but gloom!”
Micah 2: 1-13….The Reason for Christmas!
1 Woe to those who devise wickednessand work evil on their beds!When the morning dawns, they perform it,because it is in the power of their hand.2 They covet fields and seize them,and houses, and take them away;they oppress a man and his house,a man and his inheritance.3 Therefore thus says the LORD:behold, against this familyContinue reading “Micah 2: 1-13….The Reason for Christmas!”
Isaiah 13: 10-11 & 17-22….Is this for only past events?
10 For the stars of the heavens and their constellationswill not give their light;the sun will be dark at its rising,and the moon will not shed its light.11 I will punish the world for its evil,and the wicked for their iniquity;I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant,and lay low the pompousContinue reading “Isaiah 13: 10-11 & 17-22….Is this for only past events?”
Isaiah 13: 1-16….Do you think that God can be summed up in the ‘Modern Concept of Love’?
1 The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.2 On a bare hill raise a signal; cry aloud to them; wave the hand for them to enterthe gates of the nobles.3 I myself have commanded my consecrated ones, and have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger, my proudly exulting ones.4Continue reading “Isaiah 13: 1-16….Do you think that God can be summed up in the ‘Modern Concept of Love’?”
Isaiah 10: 20-27….The wheel turns a whole circle!
Recent events in Isaiah! At the beginning of chapter 9 a great promise is made. ‘For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.’ But immediately before the promisedContinue reading “Isaiah 10: 20-27….The wheel turns a whole circle!”
Isaiah 10: 12-19: Judgement of the tool (Assyria) that thinks it is the master!
The charging Bull! When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes. The Thieving Hand! For he says: “By the strength of my hand I have done it, andContinue reading “Isaiah 10: 12-19: Judgement of the tool (Assyria) that thinks it is the master!”
Isaiah 10: 5-11….You can’t go behind God’s back!
5 Woe to, Assyria, the rod of my anger;the staff in their hands is my fury!6 Against a godless nation I send him,and against the people of my wrath I command him,to take spoil and seize plunder,and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. Comment: Here the first word is ‘woe’. AlthoughContinue reading “Isaiah 10: 5-11….You can’t go behind God’s back!”
As I read it! 