This essay was first published in the CGG Weekly as “Refuting a False Proverb” on January 18, 2019. “What do you mean when you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children’s teeth are set on edge’?” —Ezekiel 18:2 Every …
A stroll through just about any cathedral in Europe, not to mention many a church just about anywhere in the world, would bring to the eye the sight of perhaps a handful or even dozens of images of God and Christ, as imagined by painters, glaziers, and sculptors down through …
I published this Random Bible Verse on March 31, 2014. It is the last of the “old” RBVs. From here on out, they will have to be new. And they brought the sacred pillars out of the temple of Baal and burned them. —II Kings 10:26 The burning of the sacred …
“If you only throw down Baal to set up Ashteroth, what progress have you made towards God?”
~C.H. Spurgeon
This Random Verse Comment was first published on another blog on January 4, 2014. And it shall be, In the day of the LORD’S sacrifice, That I will punish the princes and the king’s children, And all such as are clothed with foreign apparel. —Zephaniah 1:8 Zephaniah makes no bones …
This Random Bible Verse comment was written April 21, 2012. “And the period that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.” —I Kings 11:42 The reign of King Solomon is a rather bittersweet one. Here he was, the wisest man who had ever lived, ruling over a …
