Tag: December

Joy to The World

Merry Christmas Christmas day is the time when we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Yet, mention of the name of Jesus has become politically incorrect and what once was an important Christmas eve church service fololwed by a close…

Thus Shall a Man be Blessed

There is a description here in Psalm 128:2-3 of the idyllic life, the perfect life, the life that comes by the blessing of the Lord. We wouldn’t think these are miraculous things to “eat of the labor of your hands”,…

Your Testimonies Are Miracles

There is a great and rich history, accounts of how God has worked in the lives of people. We find this in the ten commandments given to Moses and Gods leading them as a nation. We find it in the…

Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet

There are some things in the Bible that we have likely heard before because they are widely quoted like Psalm 119:105 “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path”. However, this follows another section…

His Loyal Love is Mighty

When it is time for change, the Lord is well able to make it happen. But it doesn’t always happen the way we would have done it. Why did the Lord take Joseph, and all of the house of Israel…

Yahweh Has Made Known His Salvation

This is the message from the Lord, John 3:17 “For God did not send his Son into the world in order that he should judge the world, but in order that the world should be saved through him”. In the…

Rise Up O Judge of the Earth

There is water in Ezekiel 47:1 “coming out from under the threshold of the temple eastward” and it brings life wherever it flows. There is an abundance of fish and trees “its fruit will be as food, and its leaf…

Teach My People the Difference

There is a special role for priests in the plan of God. The priest ministers to the Lord, but also sets an example for the people. It is by this living example that in Ezekiel 44:23 “they will teach my…

This is the Place of My Throne

Ezekiel is having a vision of the temple, not Solomon’s temple as they had known it, but a much larger temple. And it begins with a messenger measuring the temple and guiding Ezekiel as he goes. But now, he sees…

This is the Most Holy Place

The Lord begins to tell the house of Israel what he wants for their future. They are twenty five years into captivity and Ezekiel has a vision of a temple, much larger, much more magnificent than anything they had seen.…

I Will Make Myself Known

The Lord has a plan. It is a plan for good for those that love righteousness. It is a plan for destruction for those that intend evil. Israel has fallen, the people in Ezekiel 37:11 “are saying … our hope…

I Will Consecrate My Great Name

The house of Israel had been removed from the land and dispersed to the nations because in Ezekiel 36:17 “they were dwelling on their soil, and they defiled it with their way and with their deeds”. But they didn’t get…

I Will Be For Them as God

The Lord has spoken against Tyre a city of merchandise, yet it says here in Ezekiel 28:14 “You were an anointed guardian cherub” and in Ezekiel 28:15 “until wickedness was found in you” so the king of Tyre also represents…

You Shall No Longer Exist

We sometimes think that the nations and cities and economies of the world will always be as they are, but Ezekiel presents a very different picture. The Lord will bring righteousness and justice and all will be judged according to…