Archive for the Category ◊ Old Testament ◊
Genesis (Program #3) – Satan’s Rebellion and Corruption
Today’s program focuses on just the first two verses of Genesis. Listeners will be presented with the Biblical view of creation that will very likely surprise them.
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Genesis (Program #2) -The General Sketch and Central Thought (2)
The real focus of not only Genesis but the whole Bible is life. It begins with life and ends with life. The light that we received in this life study of Genesis will bring out all the seeds of the truth that is unfolded throughout the Bible. Everything here is opening up that this is a book of life. When we touch the Bible at any point, If we really touch the Lord Himself as life we will be very much nourished.
When we come to the Bible we have to realize that every book has been breathed out by God. We have to say “Lord I want to touch You, as I read this book I want to contact You.” I realize now that the book of Genesis is really also a book of life, not just a book of stories, not just of lives of man but the book of life itself, which is God Himself breath into this book and now when we breath Him in as we read this book we really get a supply of the divine life.
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Genesis (Program #1) -The General Sketch and Central Thought (1)
Welcome to the life study of the book of Genesis.
This life study stands upon the shoulders of the great teachers and expositors throughout the century. So it is a study. However, this study is what we call a life study. We surely are studying with our whole being exercised. But the object of our study in particular is to grasp and to experience eventually the life elements in the Word of God.
The Bible is a book of life. Every book is permeated with the element of life. The life study has a particular objective. That objective is not merely to garner more information, more doctrine from the Scriptures. The object of this study is the Lord Himself reveal in the Word, Who is our life.
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Malachi (Program #4) – The Revival Revealed in the Minor Prophets
The twelve books of the minor prophets at the end of the Old Testament are somewhat hard to get into and most Christians today have a hard time even remembering or naming them in order. Today in our last life study of Malachi, we’re going to bring you the ‘kernel’ of all these twelve minor prophet books which is referred to as a ‘wonderful sweet kernel’.
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Malachi (Program #3) – Jehovah’s Dealing with the Sons of Jacob
Malachi 4:6 tells us, “And he will turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a curse.” This verse talks about the Lord’s warning about the day of His coming.
Malachi’s ministry is focused entirely upon the condition of the priests and the sons of Jacob. In other words, it is the condition of the people of God and their service to God as priests and in their living as God’s people before Him is what is central and crucial in the coming of the Lord Jesus the first time.
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Malachi (Program #2) – Christ in His Two Comings as Revealed in Malachi
Malachi is the last book of the Old Testament and it’s also the last book of the minor prophets. Today, we are going to touch Malachi – the center of the book of Malachi is the healing Christ. This healing Christ is the Messenger of God, the Angel of the Covenant and the Desire of the Nations. The whole earth is filled with death and injustice but with the healing Christ we have life and justice.
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Malachi (Program #1) – The Introductory Word and Jehovah’s Love of Jacob and His Dealing with the Sons of Levi
Malachi is the last book of the Old Testament and the central thought of the prophecy of Malachi is the correcting of the priests among Israel for the coming of Christ as the Messenger of God and the advising of the people of Israel for the appearing of Christ as the Sun of Righteousness.
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Zechariah (Program #15) – The Prophecies of Encouragement (6)
We all have our own favorite verses throughout the Bible. For many of us, some of our favorite verses are found in pages of the Old Testament. And we tend to avoid the Old Testament often in terms of its bigger meaning because it does seem to be somewhat veiled and obscure. However, the real meaning of all of our verses in the Old Testament match that of the revelation in the New Testament. And, that is that at the heart of God’s desire is an economy. In the life study of Zechariah, God’s economy is summarized: “The center of God’s economy is to have a Body to express Christ. Eventually, this Body will be Christ’s Bride to match Him as His counterpart and to come down to earth with Him to carry out the final step of God’s economy. Today, the world situation is ready for His coming, but the Lord has not yet gained His counterpart. Therefore, He has no way to come back. He is still waiting.”
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Zechariah (Program #14) – The Prophecies of Encouragement (5)
Any careful consideration of the history of God’s people, Israel, reveals that for much of that history, Israel has suffered. Paul, even spoke in Romans, of Israel’s heart being hardened until the age of the Gentiles will be fulfilled. We know that, that fulfillment is complete at the Lord’s second coming, so what about Israel after that time? Well the prophet Zechariah is full of encouraging prophecies concerning the eventual household salvation of Israel at the Lord’s return especially in chapter 12. Listen to Zechariah in one of the sweetest verses in all of Scripture: “And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplications; and they will look upon Me, whom they pierced; and they will wail over Him with wailing as for an only son and cry bitterly over Him with bitter crying as for a firstborn son.”
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Zechariah (Program #13) – The Prophecies of Encouragement (4)
In the Old Testament book of Zechariah, we are given extraordinary revelations of the New Testament Christ. We see Him as the Shepherd coming in an intimate and loving way to care for His scattered flock. We also see Him being rejected and even crucified for our redemption. But one of the most striking views of Christ in Zechariah is as the coming Triumphant Warrior to fight against Anti-Christ, the embodiment of Satan and to rescue God’s people, Israel, from their destiny on this earth, the war of Armageddon.
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