Category: Daily Devotional

But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days. Micah 5:2 God acted in space and in time to save His people, giving many specific predictions regarding where and…

Hosea 12-14 12 Ephraim feeds on the wind    and pursues the east wind all day long;they multiply falsehood and violence;    they make a covenant with Assyria,    and oil is carried to Egypt. The Lord’s Indictment of Israel and Judah 2 The Lord has an indictment against Judah    and will punish Jacob according to his ways;    he will repay him according to his deeds.3 In the womb he took his…

And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them. Genesis 3:21 The covenant of creation God made with man was a covenant of works, if Adam worked the Garden of Eden, he would be blessed and, if Adam disobeyed God’s command to not eat of the fruit of the…

Hosea 9-11 The Lord Will Punish Israel 9 Rejoice not, O Israel!    Exult not like the peoples;for you have played the whore, forsaking your God.    You have loved a prostitute’s wages    on all threshing floors.2 Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,    and the new wine shall fail them.3 They shall not remain in the land of the Lord,    but Ephraim shall return to Egypt,    and they shall eat…

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel. Genesis 3:15 Our verse today is called, by Christian theologians, the “first gospel.”  This represents God’s actual announcement in history of His plan of salvation. We cannot understand who Jesus is and…

Hosea 5-8 Punishment Coming for Israel and Judah 5 Hear this, O priests!    Pay attention, O house of Israel!Give ear, O house of the king!    For the judgment is for you;for you have been a snare at Mizpah    and a net spread upon Tabor.2 And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter,    but I will discipline all of them. 3 I know Ephraim,    and Israel is not hidden…

The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers; it is to Him you shall listen… Deuteronomy 18:15 Jesus came into our dimension to be our Prophet, Priest, and King. Our verse today is foundational to understanding one of Jesus’ titles, Prophet. In John 4, the Samaritan…

Hosea 1-4 1 The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. Hosea’s Wife and Children 2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom…

Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Isaiah 7:10-25 Judah’s only hope for avoiding disaster during the 8th century BC was to recognize its uncleanness, trust the Lord, and serve Him faithfully as Isaiah did in Isaiah 6. Yet Judah would not accept the message Isaiah brought to Ahaz…

Daniel 5-7 The Handwriting on the Wall 5 King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father[a] had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king…