Finding God’s Seat

Job 23:3 “O that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come to His seat!” Observation: In this reading, Job declared his great longing for God. The security, comfort, and health he had once known had been stripped away, and the counsel of his friends, while well...

Winnowing

Ezekiel 11:8 “You have feared a sword; so I will bring a sword upon you,” the Lord God declares. Observation: Ezekiel was speaking the judgments of God upon rebellious Jerusalem. In a vision, God had taken Ezekiel into the temple to see for himself the abominable...

Who Will Pay?

Revelation 15:3 “And they sang the song of Moses, the bond-servant of God, and the song of the Lamb.” Observation: In Revelation 13, John had described astonishing visions of a ten-horned beast with seven heads, each with a blasphemous name, and another beast with two...

Tripping Before Traffic

Romans 10:13 “For whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.” Observation: These middle chapters of Romans find Paul using a rich variety of metaphors to describe those who are God’s versus those who are not; those who cleave to Him, and those who do...

The Scapegoat

Leviticus 16:8-10 “Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other lot for the scapegoat. Then Aaron shall offer the goat on which the lot for the Lord fell, and make it a sin offering. But the goat on which the lot for the scapegoat fell...