Tag: remnant
Biblical Principle #104: God’s Children are the Remnant
Biblical Principles List Principle God’s children are called the remnant. Explanation GOD created everything, the heavens and the earth. Sin corrupted GOD’s creation. Satan exerted his evil influence to draw away the majority of people to do evil. Most people do not choose to follow GOD. In the first world, Noah and his seven family…
September 23 – First Return to Jerusalem
Reading Ezra 1:1-4:5 Devotional Now that Cyrus King of Persia ruled the former Babylonian Empire, he made a great decree, in accordance with what the LORD had said: 2 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth the LORD God of heaven has given me. And He has commanded me to build…
August 31 – A Remnant of Judah Flees to Egypt
Reading Jer. 40:7-16; 41:1-18; 42:1-22; 43:1-13; 44:1-30; 51:64b Devotional Only two months after Jerusalem’s fall conflict arises within the remnant of Judah. Recall that Nebuchadnezzar had setup Gedaliah as governor of Judah. Only the poorest Israelites had been left in Judah, the rest were carried to Babylon. Some of these men, led by a man…
June 30 – Judah Defeated by Israel and Aram
Reading Isa. 10:1-34; 11:1-16; 12:1-6 2 Chron. 28:5-21 Devotional Continuing with Isaiah’s prophecy, GOD explained that, although He would use Assyria to punish Israel, afterward He would also punish Assyria because of the king’s prideful heart and haughty eye (both of which the LORD hates) and his desire to utterly destroy. GOD reminds the reader…
June 25 – Micah’s Prophecy to Judah (Part 1)
Reading Micah 1:1-2:13 Devotional The prophet Micah preached his message received from GOD in Judah during the same time as Isaiah. Today we look at part 1 (of 3) of Micah’s message. It begins forcefully in condemnation against the nations: 1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days…