Category: OT
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Blood curse
God pronounced a blood curse on the royal family of Judah in Jeremiah 22: Is this man Coniah a despised, broken pot, a vessel no one cares for? Why are he and his children hurled and cast into a land that they do not know? O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord!…
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There will your heart be
Vapor of vapors, says the Preacher. Vapor of vapors! All is vapor. – Ecc 1:2 Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is,…
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Things revealed
The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. – Deuteronomy 29:29 God has secret things, things he has chosen not to show or explain to us. These things belong to…
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Balaam’s oracles
Balaam takes up seven discourses, four of them “against” Israel which points to Israel’s “fourness” – that is, that Israel is the land (four corners of the earth). There seem to be hints of a creation theme sprinkled throughout. The third oracle talks a bit about plants: Like palm groves that stretch afar,like gardens beside…
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The will of God
From David Chilton’s Days of Vengeance, regarding Revelation 17:17: The sovereign Lord is thus not at the mercy of the Beast and his minions; rather, all these events have been predestined for God’s glory, through the execution of His decrees. For God has put it into their hearts to execute His purpose by having a…
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Enjoyment and entertainment
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. He could have left it without form, without color or variation. He could have made it without hills and mountains and valleys. Without streams and lakes and oceans. Without trees and birds and leafy sea dragons. All those colors in the sunset really aren’t necessary.…
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Lady Wisdom
In Proverbs 9, Solomon contrasts the Lady Wisdom and the foolish woman, Folly. Together they cry out to the simple from the high places in town, “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” After the invitation to come in, Wisdom instructs, “Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.…