Week 9: Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 2 – Malachi and the Fatherless: Malachi 3:1-6 Finally, we come to the climax of the book. The hook that keeps you waiting for the next installment: The promise of the Messiah and the one who will go before Him to prepare the way. “Behold, I will …
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 …
OT 6:1 lndividual Responsibility
Week 6 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 1 – Individual Responsibility, Ezekiel 18:12,17 Ezekiel chapter eighteen is a very important chapter. While much of the material in the books of prophecy is dealing with the sins of Israel, Judah or many other nations as a whole, this chapter deals with the sins of …
OT 5:3 When a Nation Neglects the Fatherless
Week 5: Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 3 – When a Nation Neglects the Fatherless: Jeremiah 5:28, 7:6,7; 22:3,4; Lamentations 5:3 The message to Judah regarding the fatherless is a lot more extensive than what we saw in Jeremiah’s address to Edom. The fatherless are first mentioned in chapter five where the sin of …
OT 2:4 – Job’s First Defense
Week 2 – Lessons From Job Day 4: Job’s First Defense: Job 29: 11,12 Job’s answer to Eliphaz’s accusation all but silences Job’s friends. Bildad makes a pitiful attempt at a protest in chapter twenty-five (which is all of six verses long!), but from there on, they have little to say. Three chapters into his …
OT 2:2 Finger-pointing
Week 2 – Lessons From Job Day 2 – The Accusations of Eliphaz: Job 22:5-10 The conversation between Job and his friends, which we began covering in our last blog, continues on and on and on. Finally, in Job chapter twenty-two, Eliphaz makes a direct accusation against Job regarding some of the reasons he believes …
