5 The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants,Because they have transgressed the laws,Changed the ordinance,Broken the everlasting covenant.6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth,And those who dwell in it are desolate.Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned,And few men are left.
Isaiah 24.5-6
Genesis 15 shows how God made a covenant to give Abraham a multitude of descendants and the title deeds of ownership of the promised land. Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 show that the descendants of Abraham would be submitted to cycles of discipline as a result of disobedience to the Lord. The final judgment would be their removal from the land. The covenant with Abraham and the process of...
12 For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth. 13 Yes, I think it is right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you, 14 knowing that shortly I must put off my tent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me...
14 If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. 16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For...
3 Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord?Or who may stand in His holy place?4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart,Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol,Nor sworn deceitfully.5 He shall receive blessing from the Lord,And righteousness from the God of his salvation.6 This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him,Who seek...
“The kingdom of God does not come with observation; 21 nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.” Luke 17.20-21
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. Colossians 1.15-17This is telling us that Jesus was there at...
Psalm 24, a great psalm: The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness,The world and those who dwell therein.2 For He has founded it upon the seas,And established it upon the waters. 3 Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord?Or who may stand in His holy place?4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart,Who has not lifted up his soul to an...
What you wanted to know about the Second Coming of Jesus but didn’t know who to ask. What is the world heading for? What about the rapture and the tribulation? How / when / why does Jesus come to earth? Will He really reign on earth for 1000 years? What does the Day of the Lord mean? Who / what will end up in the lake of fire? Who will live for ever in the new heavens and new earth? Talk by Tony...
Trevor Stewart-Sweet