Text: Zechariah 2:1-12. “Behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall become plunder for those who served them. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me.” (verse 9). The word, Me, refers to Jesus Christ who will come to judge all those who oppressed God’s people. Reflect on verse 10, what[…]

Text: Malachi 3:1-5. “Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts,” (verse 1). Prophet Malachi prophesied about two messengers; John and Jesus[…]

Text: Isaiah 53:1-12. “Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted,” (verse 4). It is amazing that Prophet Isaiah an Old Testament person was enabled by God to look into the future and see Christ dying for our sins. He could see Jesus Christ, the Holy[…]

Text: Genesis 3:20-24. “And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them,” (verse 21). Much as God punishes sin, He extends grace to His disobedient children. The significant part of this clothing is that it required the shedding of blood; an animal had to be killed. This foreshadows God’s way[…]

Text: Genesis 3:1-19. “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 her heel,” (verse 15). Since God is talking to the woman and the serpent, and to the serpent in particular, one would expect to use, she shall, and instead[…]

Text: Colossians 3:18-25. In Christ, the painful aspects between a man and woman in family relationships which were introduced at the fall are all reversed. Now wives are commanded to submit to their husbands “as is fitting in the Lord” and husbands are commanded to love their wives and not to be harsh with them,” (verse 18 and 19).[…]