• Haggai 1:4-6: “ [Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste? Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you have not enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink;

  •   Matthew 11:12: “And from the days of John the Baptist until the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.”   Micah 2:12-13: “I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah,

  • Hosea 1:2 “The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea.  And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord.”   Hosea lived about 100 years before Zephaniah and Nahum.  He was a prophet

  • Good  Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomin: Mark 14:68: “But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what thou sayest.  And he went out on the porch; and the cock crew.” General Joshua Chamberlain, the hero of the Battle of Little Roundtop during the Civil War, told the story of an

  • Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomim: John 3:3: “Jesus answered and said unto him, verily, verily I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” As a small child in Christian Service Brigade I memorized this passage of Scripture to earn my merit badge

  • {WORD STUDY} – POOR (IN SPIRIT) Matthew 5:3: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Poor – Greek: ptochos from the root ptoeo or pipto – a beggar, one who is destitute, a pauper, Spiritually poor, humble, devout. Aramaic – Miskaneh:  Aramaic idiom for one who voluntarily gives up

  • WORD STUDY – SIN (AVONI) I Kings 17:18: “And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God?  Art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?” Sin – Hebrew:  Avoni – Sin, to make crooked We are familiar with the

  • Word Study – Remember Zacar – Keep in mind, mention, remember Genesis 40:14:  “Only keep me in mind when it goes well with you, and please do me a kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh, and get out of this house.” For 15 years Joseph  kept Jehovah on his lips as he moved from a