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Isaiah 7 The Winds of War | Dig the Word
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Isaiah 7 The Winds of War. March 10, 2009. The events of this chapter happen several years after those of chap 6. There Uzziah died, but his son Jotham had already become king (because Uzziah sinned and was punished with leprosy). In chapter 7 Jotham has also died and now Ahaz is on the throne of Judah. Israel, the northern half of the divided kingdom (also called Ephraim), and a neighbor to the north Aram (Syria) joined forces to attack Judah and Jerusalem. The sad part was that he confessed to the king...
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An Idiom for God’s Personal Presence | Dig the Word
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An Idiom for God’s Personal Presence. February 2, 2009. Face An idiomatic Way to Talk of Presence. Before we look at some references on this word face, let me say this about the uses I make of a concordance study. I think we all need to look up these verses and get a biblical word-picture in mind as we study these various words. We need to understand them in their ancient and Hebrew context if possible and then apply that understanding to our 21st C American culture. Gen 3:8; 4:16. Ex 33:14, 15. And, of ...
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Jacob and the Face of God | Dig the Word
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Jacob and the Face of God. February 7, 2009. Jacob Finding what is Important. Jacob had treated Esau wrongfully, stole his birthright, cheated him out of the traditional blessing, then ran away to avoid the vengeance of Esau. After several years he obeyed God’s command to return to Canaan. His mother was dead and the years had only hardened Esau’s heart to ‘get even! Jacob instructed his servants to take these animals as a gift and say, ‘These gifts before your , are from your servant Jacob, and sent to ...
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A Different Kind of Prayer | Dig the Word
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A Different Kind of Prayer. June 17, 2009. A prayer for a curse, rather than for blessing? That sounds like cult stuff at first! But is it and where should we as Bible believing Christians stand on the matter? Mr Drake was way ahead of me in that department. But our question, what about this imprecatory prayer of judgment? Can Christians use such when we are told to pray for those who despitefully persecute us? What about tyrants who in cruel violence destroy whole peoples who live under their thumbs?
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In A Word – ‘Repent’ | Dig the Word
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In A Word – ‘Repent’. March 19, 2009. God’s Call to Repentance. Ezekiel 33:11: Turn ye, turn ye ; for why will you wander from the source of life and blessedness, and die, O House of Israel? 1 Chronicles 7:14: If my people . . . will turn from their wicked ways. Isaiah 55:6-7: . . . let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts . . . Jeremiah 3:12, 13: Return, thou backsliding Israel . . . acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God. Matthew 4:17: ...
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Isaiah the Evangelist | Dig the Word
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March 3, 2009. Isaiah is known as the king of prophets, the prince of OT preachers, and most importantly, the exalted evangelist of the gospel some 750 years before that gospel was accomplished in the cross of Christ and preached as an accomplished fact in history. Two of the early Church Fathers of the Christian era spoke in this way:. Jerome says: I shall expound Isaiah in such a manner that he shall appear not as a prophet only, but as an Evangelist and an Apostle. No one can read the passage in Isa&#...
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God’s Steadfast Love | Dig the Word
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God’s Steadfast Love. January 29, 2009. This word is used some 245 times in the OT and the vast majority of these tell us of God’s attitude and activity towards His people Israel. Below are some of the verses which use this word and often in combination or in parallel form with other key words that describe the character and activity of our Living Lord, Sovereign of the universe. 1 Many times this word is joined with another noun such as ‘righteousness,’ faithfulness,’ ‘truth.’. Gen 24:27, 49; 47:29;.
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Praying from the Psalms | Dig the Word
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Praying from the Psalms. June 20, 2009. More thoughts on Imprecatory Prayers. Imprecatory means to call down or pray for judgment to be brought on someone or something. How easy for me from my easy chair to ask for forgiveness! What about asking for judgment from the Lord? Do we have a moral right and responsibility to pray for this? I wanted to pray for the students’ safety, for blessing in a difficult situation Yes, but. How was I supposed to model praying ‘for’ that general? 3) Does my praying five ev...
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Atheist Day in America | Dig the Word
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Atheist Day in America. April 1, 2009. The latest atheistic thrust of America (similar to the current adds on London’s buses) is You believe God does not exist? You are not alone. What an uneventful, pointless statement. So . . . you are not alone, Mr/Ms Unbeliever, what good does that do you or any of your agreeable friends? You are still an unbeliever and you have not addressed the wisdom, or the rightness or wrongness of that statement one whit. You are not alone on your day. Meaning there may be a Go...
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God’s Call of Isaiah | Dig the Word
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God’s Call of Isaiah. March 5, 2009. Some might ask why the book doesn’t begin with Isaiah’s call. Why is it not until chap. 6 that we read this? I think the answer is that Isaiah wants to set his ministry in context and the first five chapters give us that context. He lets us see just how bad was the rebellion against Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel (which by the way is a favorite descriptive Name of God in this book. Against that background we read of Isaiah’s call. Isaiah said, Woe is me for I am lost ...
