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Isaiah 49:3-6 meaningJuly 6, 2023
The second Servant Song of Isaiah continues as the LORD's Servant reveals a dialogue between Himself and the LORD where the Servant seems to lament that He failed to achieve His mission. The LORD consoles Him that He has not failed, and that it was too small a thing for Him to only redeem Israel—the Messiah's known mission—but that He will also redeem the nations unto the end of the earth.
Isaiah 49:1-2 meaningJuly 6, 2023
The second Servant Song of Isaiah begins with the LORD's Servant calling for the Gentiles and peoples from afar to listen and pay careful attention. He declares that He was given a mysterious mission by the LORD from before He was born.
Matthew 27:6-10 meaningJuly 5, 2023
Matthew reports what the priest's did with the bribe money that Judas left in the temple. Because it was unlawful for the priests to put Judas's returned blood money into the Temple treasury, they used it to buy the Potter's Field, which becomes a burial place for strangers. Matthew explains how the priest's purchase of "the Potter's Field" with the returned blood money originally paid to Judas for betraying Jesus, the Messiah, fulfills four prophecies concerning the destruction of Jerusalem.
Matthew 27:3-5 meaningJuly 5, 2023
Judas's Remorse: After Jesus was condemned, Judas regrets his betrayal, and he tries to return the thirty pieces of silver. The chief priests refuse to accept it. Judas throws it at their feet and runs away before killing himself.
Luke 3:10-14 meaningJune 30, 2023
After John's fiery warnings, the crowds come to John asking what they should do in order to receive forgiveness and avoid the wrath to come. John tells them to put God's commandment to love your neighbor as yourself into practice by being generous with your possessions. When reviled tax collectors and hated soldiers come and ask John the same question as it applies to them, he gives them a similar answer.
Hosea 14:9 meaningJune 29, 2023
Hosea urges anyone reading his prophecy to live wisely by obeying God’s precepts because they are completely true, and will lead those who follow His ways to be “righteous.” The way of righteousness is the path to our greatest possible fulfillment.
Hosea 14:4-8 meaningJune 29, 2023
The LORD will respond to a prayer of repentance by Israel and restore them, bringing them back to life as a nation.
Hosea 14:1-3 meaningJune 29, 2023
Hosea calls Israel to return to the LORD with a genuine heart. He gives them a prayer to pray, and urges them to pray it and renew their allegiance to God—to recognize their dependence on God’s mercy.
Hosea 13:12-16 meaningJune 28, 2023
The LORD predicts that a powerful army will destroy Israel’s villages in a brutal manner that includes the slaughter of children and the ripping open of pregnant women.
Hosea 13:9-11 meaningJune 28, 2023
The LORD announces Israel's destruction because the people turned against Him. God will destroy their military and political establishments, leaving them with no source of help.
Hosea 13:4-8 meaningJune 28, 2023
Although the LORD blessed Israel, they have become prideful and forgotten Him. They have broken His covenant.
Hosea 13:1-3 meaningJune 28, 2023
The LORD states that Ephraim’s devotion to the pagan fertility god Baal, and resulting violation of His covenant with Him, will cause the nation to disappear quickly like smoke pouring out a chimney.
Hosea 12:12-14 meaningJune 28, 2023
Hosea draws more lessons from the life of Jacob to urge Israel to remember how God has delivered Jacob and his descendants through His prophets. Because Israel fails to listen to God’s warning, he will suffer the consequences of his sins.
Hosea 12:7-11 meaningJune 28, 2023
The LORD exposes Israel's wickedness, where a pagan culture of deception and violence had taken the place of God's command to love and respect their neighbors. Israel had great materialistic pride, and arrogantly practiced religious worship to God while blatantly disobeying His commands. For their disobedience, God will send His people to exile and destroy their altars because they have failed to listen to His prophets and repent of their wicked ways.
Hosea 12:1-6 meaningJune 28, 2023
Hosea calls Israel and Judah to learn from the life of Jacob to mature from manipulation and deceit, and instead persist in seeking God's blessing. This would allow them to return to the LORD and live righteously according to their covenant with Him, resulting in a community of neighborly love and kindness rather than the fruitless practice of deceit and violence.
Hosea 11:8-12 meaningJune 28, 2023
Even though Israel will be judged and exiled to Assyria, the LORD's compassion will cause Him to temper His judgment; this exile will be temporary. God will retain a remnant. He will not abandon or destroy His people utterly because He keeps His promises, and has promised to restore Israel if they break the covenant and are exiled. In due time, God will end their exile and resettle them in the Promised Land.
Hosea 11:1-7 meaningJune 28, 2023
The LORD announces that since Israel has refused His prophetic warning and will not repent, in spite of all the care and blessing God has provided them, Assyria will now conquer them. Assyria will be Israel’s new king.
Hosea 10:9-15 meaningJune 27, 2023
The LORD announces judgment on Israel because she has been guilty of rebellion and gross immorality since the days of the gruesome episode of wickedness in Gibeah. God exhorts Israel to cease its exploitative and violent wickedness, and start loving one another, as they had promised to do in their covenant with God. Israel has trusted in her military/political establishment rather than trusting in the LORD, and will now be destroyed by a superior force.
Hosea 10:1-8 meaningJune 27, 2023
Hosea tells Israel that her idolatry and violation of the covenant she made with God will cause Him to bring catastrophic judgment on her—devastation and exile. Per the terms of Israel's covenant with God (Leviticus 26:14-43), He will use Assyria as His tool to carry the people, and Israel's idolatrous calf, away to exile. He will destroy Samaria's power to reign.
Hosea 9:15-17 meaningJune 27, 2023
The LORD states that Israel’s bad leaders and wicked behavior will cause her to be dried up like a tree whose growth depends on a strong root system. Because of her wickedness, Israel will be exiled and wander among the nations.
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