Psalm 124:6–8 (MEV): Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us for a prey to their teeth. We have escaped as a bird out of the snare of the hunters; the snare is broken, and we have escaped. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. Could this …
Author: Tim Eakins
The Name: Scepter
Esther 5:1–2 (MEV): On the third day, Esther put on her royal apparel and positioned herself in the king’s palace courtyard so that she would be directly in line with the part of the king’s throne room where the king sat facing the entrance of the room on his royal throne in the royal hall. …
God has Regrets
1 Samuel 15:10–11 (MEV): Then came the word of the Lord to Samuel, saying, “I regret that I have set up Saul to be king because he has turned back from following Me, and he has not carried out My words.” And it grieved Samuel, and he cried to the Lord all night. Is it …
Jesus Sets the Timing
2 Thessalonians 2:3 (MEV): Do not let anyone deceive you in any way. For that Day will not come unless a falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction, John 17:12 (MEV): While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. I have …
The Name: See Jesus LORD
Exodus 14:13–14 (MEV): But Moses said to the people, “Fear not! Stand firm! And see the salvation of the Lord, which He will show you today. For the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see again. The Lord shall fight for you, while you hold your peace.” I love the Old Testament …
The Name: No One Knows
Revelation 19:11–13 (MEV): I saw heaven opened. And there was a white horse. He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on His head are many crowns. He has a name written, that no one knows …
The Name: It is too Wonderful
Judges 13:17–18 (MEV): Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “What is your name, so that we can honor you when your words come true?”The angel of the Lord said to him, “Why do you ask my name? It is too wonderful.” Manoah is the father of the biblical strongman Samson. His wife was …
Have Faith in God
Mark 11:22–26 (MEV): Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. For truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say …
Whoever Drinks
John 4:13–14 (MEV): Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water that I shall give him will become in him a well of water springing up into eternal life.” There was a recent …
The Locust King
Amos 7:1 (MEV): This is what the Lord God showed me: He was forming a plague of locusts when the latter growth was beginning to sprout up, the latter growth after the king’s reaping. In the particular translation i use for reading this verse is striking. There is something that I encountered there that I …
