by David Keesling | May 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
John 2:15 “After making a whip out of cords, He drove everyone out of the temple complex, with their sheep and oxen.” Observation: This is the first of two instances where Jesus cleared the temple complex, but this one is interesting because it occurred at the...
by David Keesling | May 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Psalm 116:7, 12 “Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the Lord has been good to you. How can I repay the Lord for all His goodness to me?” Observation: The whole of Psalm 116 celebrates the Lord’s deliverance from death. Verse 3 remembers, “The cords of death...
by David Keesling | May 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
Daniel 1:2 “And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles from the temple of God.” Observation: Daniel’s beginning sets the stage for some troubling personal reflection. Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had besieged...
by David Keesling | May 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
Lamentations 5:3 “We have become orphans without a father…” (NAS) Observation: The Jews are in Babylonian captivity, having lost everything. Their inheritance (v. 2) had been “turned over to strangers,” their houses had been forfeited to aliens. Everything they needed...
by David Keesling | May 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Ezekiel 20:1 “Now it came about in the seventh year, on the fifth month on the tenth of the month, some of the elders came to inquire of the Lord, and sat before me.” (NAS) Observation: Ezekiel was Israel’s prophet-in-exile; he had been captured by Nebuchadnezzar’s...
