Daily Thoughts From God's Word

Zechariah’s visions continue:  the flying scroll, the woman in the basket, the four chariots, and the crown and the temple.  Much of the...

As for historical context (See yesterday's post.), Zechariah was contemporary with Haggai, and so, they shared the same historical...

I’ve done this before and, in fact, it might not be a bad thing to do with each prophet, just to set his ministry in historical context. ...

The day of the Lord . . . The Lord will be against the idolaters and the unrighteous.  For them it will be a day of darkness and gloom. ...

Habakkuk is one of my favorite prophets, not because of his circumstances (Jerusalem was falling and being burned right before his eyes),...

Nahum’s ministry was one of warning to Nineveh because of her sins.  An interesting statement from the beginning of the book:  “The Lord...

A very quick note, this morning, largely letting a single verse and song lyrics to tell the story.   What a powerful ending prophecy...

“The word of the Lord that came to Micah of Moresheth” (1:1).  The Lord uses ordinary people to accomplish his purposes.  An example? ...

God is concerned about Nineveh!  How shocking that message must have been to Jonah and to Israel.  It might be comparable, today, to a...

We have only the one chapter in which Obadiah spoke concerning Edom.  His message was quite clear and to the point:  Though Edom was...

There’s this series of five visions in Amos 7-9:  The locusts eating crops, Judgment by fire, The wall and plumb line, The basket of...

There is great danger in bowing to group pressure and not standing up for what is right.  Always this is a temptation, i.e., “to go along...

“Blow a trumpet in Zion;       sound an alarm on my holy mountain!” (2:1)   And so, Joel cries out as he sees terrible, terrible...

I always tend to close out my musings on Hosea by pointing to the closing verses.  Someone might ask, “Why do you always reflect on those...

The prophecies of Hosea are easily divided into two groups:  chapters 1-3 biographical materials & chapters 4-14 oracles.  Back in 4:1,...