Dr. Kim Riddlebarger helps us understand the seven trumpets in Revelation 9, our passage for today. Recall that the blast of trumpet is an important redemptive historical image throughout both testaments. Trumpet blasts accompany the giving of the law at Sinai. A trumpet blast announces the jubilee year as well as the coronation of a … More Trumpets and Final Triumph
Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that … More Ryle: We shall behold Him face to face
John Piper draws out five brief lessons from Obadiah which we start reading today. This will affect the way we live: First, God rules in this world right now and turns the course of nations and history as he pleases. If this were not so, he could not promise Judah that he would cut off … More Fear not. God holds the reins.
For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men while they slumber on their beds, then he opens the ears of men, and terrifies them with warnings, that he may turn man aside from … More The Saving Purpose of the Great Physician’s Knife
December 12 Revelation 9 (ESV) 9:1 And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. [1] 2 He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great … More December 12 Revelation 9
December 12 John 17:20-26 (ESV) 20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you … More December 12 John 17:20-26
December 12 Job 33:12-33 (ESV) 12 “Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you, for God is greater than man. 13 Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of man’s [1] words’? [2] 14 For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it. 15 In a dream, in … More December 12 Job 33:12-33
December 12 Obadiah 1-21 (ESV) 1:1 The vision of Obadiah. Edom Will Be Humbled Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!” 2 Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you shall be … More December 12 Obadiah 1-21
And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne, and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the … More John Piper: “no believing prayer is in vain. Ever.”
I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. —John 17:15-16, part of our Bible reading today. J.C. Ryle comments: We need not doubt that our Lord’s all-seeing eye … More Remaining in the world and kept from evil
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