Now many nationsare assembled against you,saying, “Let her be defiled,and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.”But they do not knowthe thoughts of the LORD;they do not understand his plan,that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.Arise and thresh,O daughter of Zion,for I will make your horn iron,and I will make your hoofsContinue reading “Micah 4: 11-13…..Stop gloating!”
Category Archives: Judgement
Micah 4: 9-11….Back to present reality.
Now why do you cry aloud?Is there no king in you?Has your counsellor perished,that pain seized you like a woman in labor?Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion,like a woman in labor,for now you shall go out from the cityand dwell in the open country;you shall go to Babylon.There you shall be rescued;there the LORDContinue reading “Micah 4: 9-11….Back to present reality.”
Mark 14: 17-21…..Jesus knew.
And when it was evening, he came with the twelve. And as they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me.” They began to be sorrowful and to say to him one after another, “Is it I?” HeContinue reading “Mark 14: 17-21…..Jesus knew.”
Micah 3: 1-4……Pretty Gruesome!
And I said:Hear, you heads of Jacoband rulers of the house of Israel!Is it not for you to know justice?—you who hate the good and love the evil,who tear the skin from off my peopleand their flesh from off their bones,who eat the flesh of my people,and flay their skin from off them,and break theirContinue reading “Micah 3: 1-4……Pretty Gruesome!”
Micah 2: 12&13…..I notice those who are true to me!
I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob;I will gather the remnant of Israel;I will set them togetherlike sheep in a fold,like a flock in its pasture,a noisy multitude of men.He who opens the breach goes up before them;they break through and pass the gate,going out by it.Their king passes on before them,the LORDContinue reading “Micah 2: 12&13…..I notice those who are true to me!”
Micah 1: 6-9…..For ‘she/her’ read Samaria.
Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country,a place for planting vineyards,and I will pour down her stones into the valleyand uncover her foundations.All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,all her wages shall be burned with fire,and all her idols I will lay waste,for from the fee of a prostituteContinue reading “Micah 1: 6-9…..For ‘she/her’ read Samaria.”
Micah 1: 1-5…..Setting the scene.
The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.The Coming DestructionHear, you peoples, all of you;pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it,and let the Lord GOD be a witness against you,the LordContinue reading “Micah 1: 1-5…..Setting the scene.”
Mark 13: 24-31…..Not detailed chronologically.
“But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. AndContinue reading “Mark 13: 24-31…..Not detailed chronologically.”
Mark 12: 1-12…..A harvest of grapes..
And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country. When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get fromContinue reading “Mark 12: 1-12…..A harvest of grapes..”
Mark 9: 38-41…..A sideline thought on judgement.
John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not stop him, for no one who does a mighty work in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me. ForContinue reading “Mark 9: 38-41…..A sideline thought on judgement.”
As I read it! 