Dec 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- Haggai 1:1-2:23 Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, and Obadiah prophesied after King Cyrus of Persia granted those held captive in Babylon permission to return to Jerusalem. Haggai and Zechariah exhorted the people and the...
Dec 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- Zephaniah 1:1-3:20 Zephaniah prophesied during the reign of King Josiah. He was a contemporary of the prophet Jeremiah. Although there was a great reformation in the days of Josiah, triggered by the discovery in the temple...
Dec 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- HABAKKUK 1:1-3:19 Habakkuk prophesied between the fall of Nineveh (the capital of Assyria) in 612 B.C. and the Babylonians’ invasion of Judah in 588 B.C. Babylon was becoming the dominant power as Jehoiakim reigns in...
Dec 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- NAHUM 1:1- 3:19 The Book of Nahum is a sequel to the Book of Jonah. When Jonah walked the streets and preached to his enemies at Nineveh, the people repented and were spared of God’s judgment. But now, approximately...
Dec 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- MICAH 5:1-7:20 Micah accurately predicts the judgments coming upon the northern and southern kingdoms. Israel is captured by the Assyrians in 722 B.C., and Judah will be taken by the Babylonians more than one hundred years...