Dec 4, 2021
JOEL 2:28-3:
An attack by an army of locusts must be so frightening! What
descriptions! And even worse when God is bringing the attack as an
act of judgement. Yet Joel offers hope. He encourages the people to
come back to God and beg for the Lord’s help. We will pick up today
re-reading the famous part of Joel...
Dec 3, 2021
JOEL 1:
I feel the need to comment about
chapter 9 of Esther and how the Jews “got rid” of their enemies.
Remember that those Jews were not Christians. (I know how silly
that sounds, but it is actually a common supposition among naive
Christians.) The revelation of God’s will did not come all at once,
and the Jews...
Dec 2, 2021
ESTHER 9-10:
We have heard
how Esther’s request was granted, the king and Haman came to the
second banquet, where Esther revealed her identity. The eunuch
Harbona just happened to have pertinent information about Haman’s
plans for Mordecai, and Haman was killed and impaled/hanged on the
pole he had planned to use for...
Dec 1, 2021
ESTHER 7-8:
In Esther 5 Haman planned to impale Mordecai on a pole in the NLT,
or just hanged in the GNT. (Given the period of time, I think that
the impaling method is more likely to be right.) But on the same
night that Haman planned for that murder, God caused the king to
have a sleepless night and read in the annals...
Nov 30, 2021
ESTHER 5-6:
In Esther 3-4 Haman cast lots (purim) to find out that March 7 was
the lucky date to exterminate the Jews. Mordecai requested that
Esther intercede directly to the king. And since she hadn’t been
called for, the only way to do that would endanger Esther herself,
since no one was allowed to approach the...