Morning Light – Ezekiel 4 Today: [Ezekiel 4] Would You Eat Food Cooked with Human Dung? In this chapter, Ezekiel is commanded to perform a month’s long prophetic act, including lying on his side for over a year, and eat food prepared on coals of human dung. Prophetic acts are recorded throughout the bible and […]
READ MORE Morning Light – Ezekiel 3 Today: [Ezekiel 3] God Makes Ezekiel’s Forehead Like Flint. In this chapter Ezekiel eats the scroll given to him by God. He is then sent to a people described as a rebellious house. Ezekiel has much difficulty facing this but is warned that blood is on his hands if he […]
READ MORE Morning Light – Ezekiel 2 Today: [Ezekiel 2] The Call of Ezekiel. Chapter 2 of Ezekiel describes a conversation with God’s voice out of the vision of the wheel within the wheel. The context of the entire vision of the glory of God by the river Chebar in chapter 1 is to set the backdrop […]
READ MORE Morning Light – Ezekiel 1 Today: [Ezekiel 1] The Wheel within the Wheel. In Ezekiel chapter 1 we witness with the prophet the unspeakable vision of transcendent glory revealed to the prophet by the river Chebar. As we consider the elements of this vision we understand that because it represents the glory of God, it […]
READ MORE Today: [Lamentations 5] Reminding God – Is He Forgetful? Do you ever feel as though God has forgotten you? In this chapter concluding the book of Lamentations, Jeremiah cries out to God that He might REMEMBER the people and show mercy. We might ask then, is God forgetful? In this chapter we learn how important […]
READ MORE Morning Light – Lamentations 4 Today: [Lamentations 4] The Languishing of the City of Jerusalem. In this chapter Jeremiah describes starving mothers eating their young to stay alive in the siege of Jerusalem. The leaders during the siege were seen covered in blood because the people are so starved they have resorted to the unthinkable. […]
READ MORE Morning Light – Lamentations 3 Morning Light Bible StudyToday: [Lamentations 3] The Weeping Prophet Affirms the Mercy of God. Do you ever despair of living? Do you sometimes wish that you had never been born? There are times in life when we feel such things, whether they are actually warranted or not. Jeremiah in this […]
READ MORE Morning Light – Lamentations 2 Today: [Lamentations 2] Does God Have No Pity? In this chapter, Jeremiah speaks of God’s seeming pitiless judgments upon the city of Jerusalem and the southern kingdom. There are times when we ask “how can God “be God” and not act to relieve human suffering. In this chapter Jeremiah decries […]
READ MORE Morning Light – Lamentations 1 Today: [Lamentations 1] Jerusalem in Ruins. Could what happened to the people of God in Lamentations, fall out to Christianity as a whole? If the Jews according to Paul were “broken off” because of unbelief, could Christianity suffer the same fate? The book of Lamentations is an obscure, unpopular book […]
READ MORE Morning Light – Jeremiah 52 Today: [Jeremiah 52] The Throne of David is Extinguished. In this chapter of Jeremiah, we read of the detailed destruction of the city of Jerusalem and the leveling of the temple. The people are carried away in chains. The king of Judah begs scraps like a dog from the table […]
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