Ex 32:28 The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died. This speaks of the day Moses returned from the mountain Sinai with God’s Law written on stone tablets, only to find that in his brief (40days) absence, the people had made a golden calf and had started …
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Facing Jerusalem
Daniel is one of my faith-heroes! His steadfast integrity towards man and faithful worship towards his God have always impressed me, and spurred me on in my own walk of faith. In Daniel 6 we read a few interesting facts about Daniel’s prayer life: Daniel 6:10 But when Daniel learned that the law had been …
Do not keep silent
Daniel 5:5 Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. This tells of the incident where Belshazzar (named for his god, Bel), King of Babylon, was feasting with a thousand of his …
I will betroth you to Me
Hosea 2:19-20 “I will betroth you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me In righteousness and justice, In lovingkindness and mercy; I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, And you shall know the LORD.” For a wounded bride, wandering around lost and hopeless because of the betrayal of her first-love husband, …
From glory to glory
2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit. There are verses in the Bible that are so packed with layers and layers of meaning, that we …
Hidden miracles
If I were to ask any of you to recall a miracle which God had performed in the past, I am reasonably sure that many of you would recount the parting of the Red Sea during Israel’s exodus; or the three Hebrews in the fiery furnace described in Daniel; or any of the epic narratives …
Born again
1 Peter 1:23 For you have been born again, but not to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God. Nicodemus, a very educated member of the Jewish ruling council in the time of Jesus, asked the question: But how can …
The blood
Hebrews 13:20 Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant…. We read here that, using the blood of Jesus, the Holy Spirit raised Him from the dead. The combination of His blood with the Spirit produced the power necessary …
Break with the Old, live in the New
Exodus 13:7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten during those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, nor shall leaven be found anywhere within your borders. Nowadays, when you want to bake bread, a quick trip to the supermarket is all that is needed to buy the packet of concentrated yeast necessary to ferment …
A new beginning
Luke 24:1-3 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. We are fast approaching the Jewish feast of …