[:en]Ezekiel described Tyre as a beautiful city with costly ships loaded with great wealth of goods doing business with all the nations. (Tarshish, Greece, Tubal and Meshech, Beth Togarmah, Rhodes, Aram, Judah and Israel, Damascus, Danites and Greeks, Dedan, Arabia, Sheba and Raamah Haran, Canneh and Eden, Asshur and Kilmad). But the ships would be… Continue reading [:en]Thoughts from Ezekiel 27[:]
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[:en]Thoughts from Ezekiel 26[:]
[:en]The city of Tyre was a proud and wealthy city but King Nebuchadnezzar would besiege it. Later in 332 BC, Alexander the Great conquered it and wipe it off from the face of the earth.[:]
[:en]Thoughts from Ezekiel 25[:]
[:en]A Prophesy against Ammon – The Ammonites rejoiced at the fall of Jerusalem. So God will destroy them. (vs. 1-7) A Prophesy against Moab – The Moabites said that the Jews were like any other Gentile nations. They had no reverence for Jehovah, so God will inflict punishment on Moab. (vs. 8-11) A Prophesy against… Continue reading [:en]Thoughts from Ezekiel 25[:]
[:en]Thoughts from 1 Peter 1[:]
[:en]In His mercy, we are given a new birth with a living hope through Jesus Christ (v. 3). He sent the Holy Spirit from heaven to give the Word and let the prophets declare it. (vs. 10-12) We are to set our hope in Christ and prepare ourselves to be self-controlled. “Be holy because I… Continue reading [:en]Thoughts from 1 Peter 1[:]
[:en]Thoughts from Ezekiel 23[:]
[:en]Two adulterous sisters were mentioned: Oholah represents Samaria, the northern kingdom of Israel, and Oholibah, represents the southern kingdom of Judah. Both of them committed idolatry, harlotry and adultery . So God sent them Assyrians to punish Oholah and the Babylonians to punish Oholibah.[:]
[:en]Thoughts from Ezekiel 22[:]
[:en]The Lord showed Ezekiel 3 images in this chapter: They were being judged for the many sins that they had committed. (vs. 1-16) They were being melted inside a furnace like copper, tin, iron and lead (vs. 17-22) The priests did violence and profaned Holy things. The prophets proclaimed false visions and lying divinations to… Continue reading [:en]Thoughts from Ezekiel 22[:]
[:en]Thoughts from James 5[:]
[:en]The rich are warned not to hoard wealth but to pay wages of their workmen (vs. 3-4) In their lives of luxury and self-indulgence, they are not to condemn and murder innocent men who oppose them. (v. 5-6) “Be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near. Do not grumble against each other,… Continue reading [:en]Thoughts from James 5[:]
[:en]Thoughts from Ezekiel 21[:]
[:en]God used Babylon as His sword if Judgment to the Jewish nation. God drew out his sharpened and polished sword for its scabbard and slash it to the right and left (v.9) posted towards Jerusalem (vs. 18, 27) and Ammonites (vs. 28-32) Ezekiel groaned (v. 7), cried out and wailed (v. 12) in response to… Continue reading [:en]Thoughts from Ezekiel 21[:]
[:en]Thoughts from Ezekiel 20[:]
[:en]Ezekiel told the Jewish elders about the nation’s history from Exodus to the desert journey until the conquest of the promised land. He revealed that Israel was guilty of repeated rebellion against the Lord (vs. 8, 13, 21), but for the sake of His Name, he relented. (vs. 9, 14, 22) and kept it from… Continue reading [:en]Thoughts from Ezekiel 20[:]
[:en]Thoughts from James 4[:]
[:en]”When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures” (v. 3) “Friendship with the world is hatred toward God. Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God” (v. 4) “God opposes the proud but… Continue reading [:en]Thoughts from James 4[:]