JEREMIAH Jeremiah 1:11. What is the connection between the rod of an almond tree and the description given by the Lord about it? The commentaries tell me, and I have no reason to quarrel with them, that the almond tree is one of the first to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
(continued from Monday)...No, the falseness remains. Even if we had been able to chase them out of Albany Park, they’d have shown up somewhere else. This book is not for them. They are not going to listen, except by a work of the Holy...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Isaiah 61:1-2. Why did Jesus only quote the first verse, and a little of the second, when He was speaking in Nazareth on that fateful morning? He knew something that Bible scholars to this day haven’t figured out: The coming of the Lord was...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“Witnesses?” Are you kidding me? From Orwell’s 1984, this apt quote: “Whatever the Party holds to be truth, IS truth…2 + 2 = 5 if the Party says so.” The Party. Speaking of Communism. How appropriate is a...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Isaiah 55-56. Though these latter chapters all seem to be about the coming Millennial Kingdom, there seems to be a lot of Old Testament imagery. Will there be sabbath-keeping, burnt offerings, etc, in the New World? This has always been my...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Isaiah 44:28-45:7. Who is Cyrus? Here is one of those places where a chapter should not have been divided! Cyrus is none other than the coming King of Persia, who will defeat the Babylonians and rule the world. At this writing, Cyrus had not been...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Isaiah 42. Who are the two “servants” of this chapter? The first four verses talk of one who will bring forth justice to the nations, who is quiet and compassionate, persistent and righteous. Verse 19-22 speak of a [spiritually] blind...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
22. Isaiah 32:9-20. Warning, trouble, deliverance. When does this sequence take place? One has to see it all, not just parts. Verses 16 and 17 talk about an everlasting righteousness that will come at the end of this series of events. That...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
32. Isaiah 28:11-12. How is this passage used in the New Testament? Paul speaks of how the gift of tongues is one more way God tried to speak to His people Israel, yet to no avail. He says tongues are for a sign to unbelieving Jews, and quotes...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
22. Isaiah 23:15. When was this “seventy years” prophecy fulfilled? Here is predicted the eclipsing of Tyre’s power by the Babylonian surge over Assyria. The seventy years, as with Israel’s captivity, was generally...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
