Sep 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- ISAIAH 6:1-7:25 Chapter 6 describes how Isaiah is commissioned to his prophetic office. When King Uzziah dies in 740 BC, Judah lost a great leader. His vacancy on the throne was widely-felt. Some consider Uzziah the last great...
Sep 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- ISAIAH 3:1- 5:30 To whom much is given, much will be required (See Luke 12:48). Those who are given much light will be judged more severely. In the first section of Isaiah, we read much about the judgment of nations. But Isaiah...
Sep 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- ISAIAH 1:1-2:22 The Hebrew Old Testament Scriptures are referred to as “The Tanakh” (sometimes spelled, Tanach). The name is a composite term made up of the leading consonants of the three major sections of their Bible, which...
Sep 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- SONG OF SONGS 5:1-8:14. There are two books in the Bible where ‘God’ is not mentioned- The Book of Esther and The Song of Solomon. Yet we have already seen how God is present in the Book of Esther. He is actually the unseen hero...
Sep 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- SONG OF SOLOMON 1:1-4:16 Today we leave behind the Book of “Vanity of Vanities” (Ecclesiastes) and start reading the “Song of Songs” (The Song of Solomon). The former book dealt with life “under the sun”, lived within the...