Category: Scripture Notes
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Did ye fast unto me?
When the chosen people question the value of their fasting the Lord reminds them that keeping the letter of the law is off little value when they refuse to keep the Spirit of the law. Their fasting was to check a box of to be seen as righteous but their hearts were not tuned to…
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Why good tidings now?
Why was Zechariah bringing good tidings to Jerusalem at that time? He was to call them to repentance and remind them that their fathers had ignored comparable calls to repentance so it doesn’t sound like these promises are based on their behavior. Rather, it seems that the Lord is making promises to demonstrate His faithfulness…
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I can relate
Haggai called the attention of the people to the fact that they had worked for their own maintenance and found themselves always in want. He reminded them that they had worked for themselves, building their own houses, and neglected working for the Lord and building up His house. When they begin the work of the…
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What does faith look like?
Where did the brother of hatred show the most faith? Was it in paying with fair? Was it seeing the finger of the Lord? Was it the confidence to ask to see more when the Lord asked if he had only seen the finger? Was it in remembering the words of the Lord and concocting…
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Deliberate migration
When we look at prehistory the assumption seems to be that people and animals migrated to follow food etc, that they spread out organically. How would it understanding change if we assumed that they were often more deliberate, much less that many times they were being openly led by an omnipotent father as Jared and…
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If He will drive us out
I just realized that the reason Jared asked his brother to inquire of the Lord relative to their possibly getting driven out of the land. He knew that the Lord had promised to scatter the people and he was willing to endure that once their language had been presented with their friends.
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Whoso believeth in Christ
Promote was that “whoso believeth Christ, doubting nothing,” could receive whatever they asked for. It is instructive to consider that whoso believeth in Christ would not ask anything to consume it on their lusts. They would ask for things such as the strength to not give in to temptation. That’s not too say that they…
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Wanderers
Zephaniah seems to be speaking to a people who have no direction. They have no including to follow the Lord not do they seem to be overtly pursuing any other God. (That might just be a matter of what he is addressing.)
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Waiting on the Lord
I get the sense that those who wait patiently on the Lord are necessarily humble—allowing the Lord to work in His time and willing to not seek their own will by any means. In contrast, those who do not look to the Lord are naturally more willing to sell any means to achieve their own…
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No word of comfort
Nahum had no word of comfort or opening for averting destruction in his words to Nineveh.