Today’s Word

Today’s Word

  • The Power of the Past

    For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the sight of God. For it is written: “He is the one who catches the wise by their craftiness”;  1 Corinthians 3:19 NASB Foolishness – Pay attention to Richard Lim’s insight: “Christians, in particular, bore the brunt of such polemical assaults because they lacked the protective armor of…

  • The Pursuit of Power (4) Rewind

    Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, intoxicating the whole earth; the nations have drunk her wine, therefore the nations are going mad.  Jeremiah 51:7  Robert Alter In the hand – Babylon was an instrument in the hand of YHVH for His purposes.  The text tells us quite clearly that…

  • The Pursuit of Power (3) Rewind

    Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, intoxicating the whole earth; the nations have drunk her wine, therefore the nations are going mad.  Jeremiah 51:7  Robert Alter Mad – The elixir of the gods is power.  It is the aphrodisiac of self-sovereignty.  And it is deadly.  Jeremiah proclaimed that the…

  • The Pursuit of Power (2) Rewind

    Her princes inside her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves . . .  Zephaniah 3:3  KJV Roaring lions/evening wolves – “The hunger of the powerful knows no satiety; the appetite grows on what it feeds.  Power exalts itself and is incapable of yielding to any transcendent judgment; . . . It is the…

  • The Pursuit of Power (1)

    She did not listen to the voice; she did not receive correction; she did not trust in YHWH; she did not draw near to her God.  Zephaniah 3:2  Robert Alter Did Not – We have been examining the end of the Empire of Rome, but the same patterns existed in biblical times.  Therefore, I believe…

  • Sound Familiar? (Rewind)

    But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and besides, I will not let Israel go.”  Exodus 5:2 NASB Lord – It’s too bad that English translations replace the consonants YHVH with “LORD” especially in this verse.  Why? Because Pharoah isn’t making a statement about…

  • All in the Family (2)

    Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.  For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household….

  • All in the Family (1)

    Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.  For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household….