Assyria would be like a tree cut down at the height of its power never to rise again. Judah (the royal line of David) would be like a tree chopped down to a stump. But from that stump a new branch would grow - the Messiah. He would be greater than the original tree and would bear much fruit. The Messiah is the fulfillment of God's promise that a descendant of David would rule forever.
The Messiah is Jesus Christ.
How we long for fair treatment from others, but do we give it? Only Christ can be the perfectly fair judge. Only as he governs our hearts can we learn to be as fair in our treatment of others as we expect others to be toward us.
Judah had become corrupt, and now it was surrounded by hostile foreign powers. The nation desperately needed a revival of righteousness, equity, and faithfulness. They needed to turn from selfishness and show justice to the poor and the oppressed. The righteousness that God values is more than reframing from sin, it is actively turning toward others and offering them the help they need.
It is incredible to think of hostile animals living at peace. It is even more incredible for hostile people to live at peace with one another. And one day the whole world will acknowledge that Christ is Lord.
A golden age is yet to come. Not all of this was fulfilled at Christ's first coming. For example, nature has not returned to its intended balance and harmony.
Reference summary used from The Life Application Bible; Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.; Wheaton, IL
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Monday, September 4, 2017
Saturday, July 15, 2017
Sunday - Jeremiah's Call and Commission - Jeremiah 1:4-10 - 7/16/17
God knew you, as he knew Jeremiah, long before you were born or even conceived. He knew you, thought about you, and planned for you. When you feel discouraged or inadequate, remember that God has always thought of you as valuable and has had a purpose in mind for you.
Each Christian has a purpose in life, but some are appointed by God for a specific kind of work. Samson, John the Baptist, and Paul were each called to do a particular job for God. If God gives you a specific task, accept it cheerful and do it with excellence. If God has not given you a specific assignment, then seek to fulfill the mission common to all believers - love, obey, and serve God - until such time as his guidance becomes more clear.
Often people struggle with new challenges because they lack self-confidence. They feel they have inadequate ability, training or experience. Jeremiah thought he was too young and inexperience to be God's spokesman to the world. But God promised to be with him. We must never allow feelings of inadequacy to keep us from obeying God's call. He will always be with us. If God gives you a job to do, he will provide all you need to do it.
God's message to Jeremiah was like his message to Moses: the God who made our mouths can provide the words he wants us to speak.
Jeremiah predicted that after the destruction of the nation, God would send a new Shepherd, the Messiah.
God still restores his people by renewing their hearts. We can have assurance of a new heart by loving God, trusting Christ to save us, and repenting of our sin.
Jeremiah served God faithfully for 40 years. During that time the people ignored, rejected, and persecuted him. He remained faithful to God.
People's acceptance or rejection of us is not the measure of our success. God's approval alone should be our standard for service. We must bring God's message to others when we are rejected.
Reference summary used from the Life Application Bible, KJV; Tyndale Publishers Inc; Wheaton, IL
Each Christian has a purpose in life, but some are appointed by God for a specific kind of work. Samson, John the Baptist, and Paul were each called to do a particular job for God. If God gives you a specific task, accept it cheerful and do it with excellence. If God has not given you a specific assignment, then seek to fulfill the mission common to all believers - love, obey, and serve God - until such time as his guidance becomes more clear.
Often people struggle with new challenges because they lack self-confidence. They feel they have inadequate ability, training or experience. Jeremiah thought he was too young and inexperience to be God's spokesman to the world. But God promised to be with him. We must never allow feelings of inadequacy to keep us from obeying God's call. He will always be with us. If God gives you a job to do, he will provide all you need to do it.
God's message to Jeremiah was like his message to Moses: the God who made our mouths can provide the words he wants us to speak.
Jeremiah predicted that after the destruction of the nation, God would send a new Shepherd, the Messiah.
God still restores his people by renewing their hearts. We can have assurance of a new heart by loving God, trusting Christ to save us, and repenting of our sin.
Jeremiah served God faithfully for 40 years. During that time the people ignored, rejected, and persecuted him. He remained faithful to God.
People's acceptance or rejection of us is not the measure of our success. God's approval alone should be our standard for service. We must bring God's message to others when we are rejected.
Reference summary used from the Life Application Bible, KJV; Tyndale Publishers Inc; Wheaton, IL
Sunday, January 8, 2017
Thursday - Salvation is for All People - Isaiah 49:1-7 - 1/5/17
The Messiah & the object of advent. God promiseth his protection & success.
Verse 1 ... LISTEN, ... O isles unto me; & hearken, ye people, from far'
Isaiah 41:1 ... (God calleth upon idolaters to consider his power to aid his people.) KEEP silence before me, O island; & let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
Isaiah 49:1 ... The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
Galatians 1:15 .. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, & called me by his grace.
Isaiah 49:2 ... And he hath made ... my mouth like a sharp sword;
Hebrews 4:12 ... (the power of God's word.) For the word of God is quick, & powerful, & sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul & spirit, & of the joints & marrow, & is a discerner of the thoughts & intents of the heart.
Isaiah 49:2 ... in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, & made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;
Isaiah 51:16 ... And I have put my words in thy mouth, & I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, & lay the foundations of the earth, & say unto Zi'on, thou art my people.
Isaiah 49:3 ... And said unto me, ... Thou art my servant, O Is'ra-el, ...
Isaiah 42:1 ... (The servant of Jehovah.) BEHOLD my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my Spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gen'tiles.
Isaiah 49:3 ... in whom I will be glorified.
John 13:31 ... (The Son of man glorified.) Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, & God is glorified in him.
Isaiah 49:4 ... Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, & in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, & (my reward) my work with my God.
Ezekiel 3:19 ... Yet if thou warn the wicked, he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delievered thy soul.
Isaiah 49:5 ... And now, saith the LORD ... that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Ja'cob again to him (That Is'ra-el may be gathered to him, & I may)
Isaiah 49:5 ... be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, & my God shall be my strength.
Matthew 23:37 ... (Jesus' lamentation over Jerusalem.)
Isaiah 49:6 ... And he said, (Art thou lighten than that thou shouldest,) It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Ja'cob & to restore the preserved of Is'ra-el: I will also give thee for a ... light to the Gen'tiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Acts 13:47 ... (The Jews opposing & blaspheming, Paul & Barnabas turn to the Gentiles.) For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gen'tiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
Isaiah 49:7 ... Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Is'ra-el & his Holy One, (to him that is despised in soul) to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorrent, to a servant of rulers,Kings shall see & armies, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, & the Holy One of Is'ra-el, & he shall choose thee.
Scripture reference used from The KJV Bible, SouthWestern Co., Nashville, TN
Verse 1 ... LISTEN, ... O isles unto me; & hearken, ye people, from far'
Isaiah 41:1 ... (God calleth upon idolaters to consider his power to aid his people.) KEEP silence before me, O island; & let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
Isaiah 49:1 ... The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
Galatians 1:15 .. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, & called me by his grace.
Isaiah 49:2 ... And he hath made ... my mouth like a sharp sword;
Hebrews 4:12 ... (the power of God's word.) For the word of God is quick, & powerful, & sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul & spirit, & of the joints & marrow, & is a discerner of the thoughts & intents of the heart.
Isaiah 49:2 ... in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, & made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;
Isaiah 51:16 ... And I have put my words in thy mouth, & I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, & lay the foundations of the earth, & say unto Zi'on, thou art my people.
Isaiah 49:3 ... And said unto me, ... Thou art my servant, O Is'ra-el, ...
Isaiah 42:1 ... (The servant of Jehovah.) BEHOLD my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my Spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gen'tiles.
Isaiah 49:3 ... in whom I will be glorified.
John 13:31 ... (The Son of man glorified.) Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, & God is glorified in him.
Isaiah 49:4 ... Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, & in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, & (my reward) my work with my God.
Ezekiel 3:19 ... Yet if thou warn the wicked, he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delievered thy soul.
Isaiah 49:5 ... And now, saith the LORD ... that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Ja'cob again to him (That Is'ra-el may be gathered to him, & I may)
Isaiah 49:5 ... be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, & my God shall be my strength.
Matthew 23:37 ... (Jesus' lamentation over Jerusalem.)
Isaiah 49:6 ... And he said, (Art thou lighten than that thou shouldest,) It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Ja'cob & to restore the preserved of Is'ra-el: I will also give thee for a ... light to the Gen'tiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Acts 13:47 ... (The Jews opposing & blaspheming, Paul & Barnabas turn to the Gentiles.) For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gen'tiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
Isaiah 49:7 ... Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Is'ra-el & his Holy One, (to him that is despised in soul) to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorrent, to a servant of rulers,Kings shall see & armies, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, & the Holy One of Is'ra-el, & he shall choose thee.
Scripture reference used from The KJV Bible, SouthWestern Co., Nashville, TN
Monday, December 5, 2016
Monday - The New Ruler from Bethlehem - Micah 5:1-5 - 12/5/16
The birthplace of the Messiah. His Kingdom.
Verse 1 ... NOW gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall ... smite the judge of Is'ra-el with a rod upon the cheek.
Matthew 27:30 ... (Jesus is crowned with thorns) And they spit upon him, & took the reed, & smote him on the head.
Micah 5:2 ... But thou, ... Beth'le-hem Eph'ra-tah, though thou be little ...
Matthew 2:6 ... (Wise men from the east inquire after Christ) And thou Beth'le-hem, in the land of Ju'da, art not the least among the princes of Ju'dea: out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall (feed) rule my people Is'ra-el.
Micah 5:2 ... among the ...
I Samuel 23:23 ... See therefore, & take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, & come ye again to me with the certainty, & I will go with you: & it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Ju'dah.
Micah 5:2 ... thousands of Ju'dah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ...
Exodus 18:25 ... (Jethro's counsel to Moses) And Mo'ses chose able men out of all Is'ra-el, & made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, & rulers of tens.
Micah 5:2 ... ruler in Is'ra-el;
Genesis 49:10 ... (Jacob foretelleth what will befall them in the last days, & blesseth them) The sceptre shall not depart from Ju'dah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shi'loh come; & unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Micah 5:2 ... whose goings forth have been from of old, ... from (the days of eternity) everlasting.
John 1:1 ... (The divinity, humanity, & office of Jesus Christ) IN the beginning was the Word, & the Word was with God, & the Word was God.
Micah 5:3 ... Therefore will he give them up, until the time that ... she which travaileth hath brought forth: ...
Micah 4:10 ... Be in pain, & labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, & thou shalt dwell in the field, & thou shalt dwell in the field, & thou shalt go even to Bab'y-lon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
Micah 5:3 ... then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Is'ra-el.
Micah 4:7 ... And I will make her that halted a remnant, & her that was cast far off a strong nation: & the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zi'on from henceforth, even for ever.
Micah 5:4 ... And he shall stand & (rule) feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; & they shall abide: for now ...
Isaiah 40:11 ... He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, & carry them in his bosom, & shall gently lead those (that give suck) that are with young.
Micah 5:4 ... shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
Luke 1:32 ... He shall be great, & shall be called the Son of the Highest; & the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father Da'vid:
Micah 5:5 ... And this man ... shall be the peace, when the As-syr'i-an shall come into our land: & when he shall come into our land: & when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, & eight (princes of men) principal men.
Psalm 72:7 ... (The psalmist, praying for the king, foretelleth his prosperous & glorious reign. A Psalm of Psalm 127 title for Solomon) In his days shall the righteous flourish; & abundance of peace (till there be no moon) so long as the moon endureth.
Scripture reference used from The KJV Bible, SouthWestern Co., Nashville, TN
Verse 1 ... NOW gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall ... smite the judge of Is'ra-el with a rod upon the cheek.
Matthew 27:30 ... (Jesus is crowned with thorns) And they spit upon him, & took the reed, & smote him on the head.
Micah 5:2 ... But thou, ... Beth'le-hem Eph'ra-tah, though thou be little ...
Matthew 2:6 ... (Wise men from the east inquire after Christ) And thou Beth'le-hem, in the land of Ju'da, art not the least among the princes of Ju'dea: out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall (feed) rule my people Is'ra-el.
Micah 5:2 ... among the ...
I Samuel 23:23 ... See therefore, & take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, & come ye again to me with the certainty, & I will go with you: & it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Ju'dah.
Micah 5:2 ... thousands of Ju'dah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ...
Exodus 18:25 ... (Jethro's counsel to Moses) And Mo'ses chose able men out of all Is'ra-el, & made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, & rulers of tens.
Micah 5:2 ... ruler in Is'ra-el;
Genesis 49:10 ... (Jacob foretelleth what will befall them in the last days, & blesseth them) The sceptre shall not depart from Ju'dah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shi'loh come; & unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Micah 5:2 ... whose goings forth have been from of old, ... from (the days of eternity) everlasting.
John 1:1 ... (The divinity, humanity, & office of Jesus Christ) IN the beginning was the Word, & the Word was with God, & the Word was God.
Micah 5:3 ... Therefore will he give them up, until the time that ... she which travaileth hath brought forth: ...
Micah 4:10 ... Be in pain, & labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, & thou shalt dwell in the field, & thou shalt dwell in the field, & thou shalt go even to Bab'y-lon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
Micah 5:3 ... then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Is'ra-el.
Micah 4:7 ... And I will make her that halted a remnant, & her that was cast far off a strong nation: & the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zi'on from henceforth, even for ever.
Micah 5:4 ... And he shall stand & (rule) feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; & they shall abide: for now ...
Isaiah 40:11 ... He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, & carry them in his bosom, & shall gently lead those (that give suck) that are with young.
Micah 5:4 ... shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
Luke 1:32 ... He shall be great, & shall be called the Son of the Highest; & the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father Da'vid:
Micah 5:5 ... And this man ... shall be the peace, when the As-syr'i-an shall come into our land: & when he shall come into our land: & when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, & eight (princes of men) principal men.
Psalm 72:7 ... (The psalmist, praying for the king, foretelleth his prosperous & glorious reign. A Psalm of Psalm 127 title for Solomon) In his days shall the righteous flourish; & abundance of peace (till there be no moon) so long as the moon endureth.
Scripture reference used from The KJV Bible, SouthWestern Co., Nashville, TN
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Wednesday - By His Bruises We Are Healed - Isaiah 53:1-6 -10/26/16
The Messiah despised & rejected. His sufferings in our behalf.
Isaiah 53:1 ... Who hath believed our ...
John 12:38 ... That the saying of E-sa'ias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, LORD, who hath believed our report? & to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?
Isaiah 53:1 ... report? & to whom ... doctrine
Isaiah 53:1 ... is the arm of the LORD revealed?
Isaiah 51:9 ... Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Ra'hab, & wounded the dragon?
Isaiah 53:2 ... For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, & as a root out of a dry ground ...
Isaiah 11:1 ... And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jes'se, & a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
Isaiah 53:2 ... he hath no form nor comeliness; & when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
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Isaiah 53:3 ... He is despised & rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and ...
Psalm 22:6 ... But I am a worm, & no man; a reproach of men, & despised of the people.
Isaiah 53:3 ... acquainted with grief: and ...
Hebrews 4:15 ... For we have not a high priest which can not be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Isaiah 53:3 ... as a hiding of faces from him, or, from us.. we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, & ... we esteemed him not
John 1:10,11 ...He was in the world, & the world knew him not.
He came unto his own, & his own received him not.
Isaiah 53:4 ... (As a hiding of faces from him, or, from us) Surely ...he hath borne our griefs, & carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, & afflicted.
Matthew 8:17 ... That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by E-sa'ias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, & bare our sickness.
Isaiah 53:5 ... But he was (tormented) wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; with his...
Romans 4:25 ... Who was delivered for our offences, & was raised again for our justification.
Isaiah 53:5 ... stripes (bruise) we are healed.
I Peter 2:24 ... Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Isaiah 53:6 ... All we like sheep, have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; & the LORD ...
Psalm 119:176 ... I have gone astray like a lost sheep: seek they servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
Isaiah 53:6 ... hath laid on him the iniquity of us all (hath made the iniquities of us all to meet on him).
Scripture reference used from the KJV Bible, The SouthWestern Co., Nashville, TN
Isaiah 53:1 ... Who hath believed our ...
John 12:38 ... That the saying of E-sa'ias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, LORD, who hath believed our report? & to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?
Isaiah 53:1 ... report? & to whom ... doctrine
Isaiah 53:1 ... is the arm of the LORD revealed?
Isaiah 51:9 ... Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Ra'hab, & wounded the dragon?
Isaiah 53:2 ... For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, & as a root out of a dry ground ...
Isaiah 11:1 ... And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jes'se, & a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
Isaiah 53:2 ... he hath no form nor comeliness; & when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
was ra
Isaiah 53:3 ... He is despised & rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and ...
Psalm 22:6 ... But I am a worm, & no man; a reproach of men, & despised of the people.
Isaiah 53:3 ... acquainted with grief: and ...
Hebrews 4:15 ... For we have not a high priest which can not be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Isaiah 53:3 ... as a hiding of faces from him, or, from us.. we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, & ... we esteemed him not
John 1:10,11 ...He was in the world, & the world knew him not.
He came unto his own, & his own received him not.
Isaiah 53:4 ... (As a hiding of faces from him, or, from us) Surely ...he hath borne our griefs, & carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, & afflicted.
Matthew 8:17 ... That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by E-sa'ias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, & bare our sickness.
Isaiah 53:5 ... But he was (tormented) wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; with his...
Romans 4:25 ... Who was delivered for our offences, & was raised again for our justification.
Isaiah 53:5 ... stripes (bruise) we are healed.
I Peter 2:24 ... Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Isaiah 53:6 ... All we like sheep, have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; & the LORD ...
Psalm 119:176 ... I have gone astray like a lost sheep: seek they servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
Isaiah 53:6 ... hath laid on him the iniquity of us all (hath made the iniquities of us all to meet on him).
Scripture reference used from the KJV Bible, The SouthWestern Co., Nashville, TN
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