Week 8 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 5 – Dung on Your Face (Part 2) –Priests Gone Astray: Malachi 2:1-9 The message of Malachi chapter two was written to the priests. God had made a covenant with the Levites, but they had “departed out of the way” (2:8). This passage addresses very clearly …
OT 8:4 Dung on Your Face
Week 8 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 4 – Malachi – Dung on Your Face: Malachi 2:1-3 This is a hard post for me to write, not because I don’t want to write it, but because I want to scream it from the housetops and know that I can’t. Imagine this scene, a …
OT 8:3 Malachi – Setting the Stage
Week 8 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 3 – Malachi: Setting the Stage Malachi, the last book of the Old Testament. As stories go, this “final chapter” would be similar to that of a children’s book that I once read. The fair maiden is trapped in the castle tower, held prisoner by the …
OT 8:2 Mordecai’s Influence
Week 8 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 2 – Esther Cont’d – Mordecai’s Influence: Esther 2:20; 4:1-17 Esther’s obedience continued even after she had been made queen. Chapter two, verse seventeen tells us that she was made queen in Vashti’s place. The king threw a feast, he gave out money and gifts, made …
OT 8:1 Stopping the Fatherless Pandemic
Week 8 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 1 – Esther Cont’d – Stopping the Fatherless Pandemic: Esther 2:10; Proverbs 22:6 Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.” That Mordecai took this to heart can be plainly …
OT 7:3 Zechariah and the Fatherless
Week 7 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 3 – Zechariah and the Fatherless: Zechariah 7,8 So, what about the fatherless? Where do they come into this whole picture? Once again, they are at the heart of the issue. Apparently, during the time of the captivity the Jews had been observing a time of …
OT 7:2 Glory Out Of Rubble
Week 7 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 2: Zechariah and Ministry Cont’d – Glory from Rubble: Haggai 2 Although it is not addressed in the chapters of Ezra that we have been covering, you may remember that when the foundation of the temple was laid those who had seen the former temple wept …
OT 6:5 Don’t Pour Your Life Into A Bag With Holes
Week 6 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 5: Zechariah and Ministry Cont’d – Don’t Pour Your Life Into A Bag With Holes: Haggai 1 The King’s letter brought the rebuilding of the temple to a halt. The response of the Jews to this new situation is very disheartening. In the opening chapter of …
OT 6:3 When the Enemy Volunteers
Week 6 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 3 – Zechariah and the Challenges of Ministry – When the Enemy Volunteers: Ezra 4 So, you may be thinking, wait a minute, Zechariah and Challenges of Ministry – so why are we reading from Ezra? The answer is simple. The ministry of Zechariah overlaps the …
OT 6:2 A Man for the Gap
Week 6 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 2 – A Man for the Gap: Ezekiel 22:7, 29 Ezekiel twenty-two is a sobering chapter. It addresses Jerusalem and her sin. Verse three gives the short list of offenses: Violence and idolatry. The long list, however, starts in verse seven, to it is added gross …
