12:9). In II Corinthians 4:4 the devil is called "the god of this world." He is the king or the prince of the evil world that we live in today. Let's see something about the origin of the devil. Turn to Isaiah 14, beginning with verse 4, "Thou shalt take up this proverb ...
Eva Benefield: … He tried to call me … but I didn't pick up because I was at work … I said I'll call you later … I never called him. 'Cause I assumed everything would be all right. I'd get a Bible verse next morning and I'll call him, and everything would be OK. Ev...
They thought of him as a God not nigh at hand, but far off (Jeremiah 23:23). . . . Pulpit CommentaryVerse 23. - An important and melancholy addition to our knowledge of these false prophets. They were not only misleading prophets, but immoral men in their private capacities. Villainy...
Did God really practice the first animal sacrifice? Was it truly a lamb? Did God intend for Adam and Eve to learn about substitutionary atonement? Frankly, this seems to be an awful lot to read into one single verse which says nothing other than that “God made tunics of skin, and clot...
evil in Your sight, so that You are proved right when You speak and justified when You judge. Surely I have been a sinner from birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me…Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me and I will be whiter than snow…Create in me a...
Deborah - Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD, now that Ehud was dead. So the LORD sold them into the hands of Jabin king of
God says in that one sentence in verse 11, but it shows that Saul wasn’t always evil. If Saul had been forever evil, God would never have made Saul king in the first place. Why would He have Samuel tell Saul “the Lord is with you” (1 Samuel 10:7) if Saul was evil from ...
“If you made that journey in real life, you’d cross plains, mountains, dense forest, river deltas, and then some not at all evil swamps.” Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t all of that terrain appear in the book? There’s the Misty Mountains, the plains of Rohan, the for...
6The Israelites did evil in the eyes of theLord,and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites.2Because the power of Midian was so oppressive,the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, cavesand strongholds.3Whenever the Israelites planted their crops,...
or a reaction to the earlier experiences of an oppressive presence of power-over. For many Christians the idea of God has been imaged as such an oppressive, dominating, judgmental, almighty power-over and out-there. It is in reality an evil power, an idol and Moloch. It has to be exorc...