Hosea 10:12 (MEV): Sow to yourselves righteousness, reap mercy, break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, until He comes and rains righteousness upon you. Hidden gems abound in the writings of the prophets. This is one of my favorites. In an agrarian way, God succinctly explains how things work. …
Author: Tim Eakins
He Won’t Turn His Face from You
2 Chronicles 30:9 (MEV): Because if you return to the Lord, your brothers and children will find compassion before those who have taken them captive, in order to return you to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn His face from you if you all return to …
Dissipation Leads to Apathy
Zephaniah 1:12 (MEV): At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their lees, who say in their heart “The Lord will not do good, nor will He do evil.” This is the prophet Zephaniah speaking to Judah. He is speaking of things to happen …
You Are the Children of the Living God
Hosea 1:10–11 (MEV): Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not My people,” there it will be said to them, “You are the children of the living God.” …
Self-Important Religious Folk
Amos 7:12–13 (MEV): So Amaziah said to Amos, “O seer, go, flee back to the land of Judah. Earn your sustenance there, and prophesy there. But do not prophesy any more at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary and a royal temple.” The prophet is never welcome in the homeland. There are people who …
A Child is Born, a Son is Given
Here’s something that has occupied the spare processing cycles in my brain when the screen saver is active. In other words, there is something that I have been considering deeply. Isaiah 9:6 (MEV): For unto us a child is born,unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder. And his …
And Many Animals
Sometimes I cannot read the Bible without other ideas swirling in my brain. Most of those ideas are just vapidity. Yet every once in a while, an idea coalesces with the Scriptures that is intriguing. It happened this morning. In reading Jonah, this stood out. Jonah 3:7–9 (MEV): Then he made a proclamation in Nineveh:“By …
Why a Kinsman?
I was asked a question today. “If GOD is all loving then why can't he just forgive Satan?” Now that is a deep question! That requires lots of heavy study. I am going to try to sum it up succinctly, but will not show all of its points, nor develop them fully. Let’s start at …
Judge, Executioner and Mediator?
1 Chronicles 21:14–15 (MEV): So the Lord sent a plague throughout Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell. And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he prepared to destroy it, the Lord looked and relented from the calamity. And He said to the angel bringing the destruction, “It is …
He is Just
Romans 3:22–26 (MEV): This righteousness of God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all and upon all who believe, for there is no distinction. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God has set …
