“When the canon closed on the OT [Old Testament] after the time of Ezra and Nehemiah, there followed four hundred ‘silent years’ when no prophet spoke God’s revelation in any form. That silence was broken by John the Baptist as God spoke once more prior to the NT [New Testament] ...
God. “O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water” (Psalm 63:1). He is all-powerful, all-knowing, everywhere present at all times, yet He ismyGod. He doesn’t want t...
Today, the bonds of barrenness are loosed,/ for God, hearkening unto Joachim and Anna,/ doth manifestly promise them/ that they will beyond all expectation,/ give birth to the divine Maiden,/ from whom the Infinite One Himself, becoming man, shall be born./ And He commandeth the angels...
God has promised to give us guidance but many of us have trouble finding God’s guidance. We want to be sure that we are in God’s will and we don’t want to take the wrong path. If you are confused about the issue of guidance and God’s will for you, you need to know that ...
The silent voice advised me…”In all of thy ‘getting’, get an understanding!“ You see, I recognized the inner voice as being that of the Holy Spirit’s. And no doubt, I did not fully understand much of what I was reading in the Old Testament. However, now later in life, I ha...
Do you think about eternity? Do you yearn and get excited about being united with your Bridegroom? Are you truthful to your own hurt? Or do you justify “little white lies” if the result seems more acceptable? How do you view your life? What is your filter? Are you seeing with God’...
incarnation. “You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being” (Phil 2:5-7...
63But Jesus remained silent. The high priest said to him, “I charge you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God.” 64“You have said so,” Jesus replied. “But I say to all of you: From now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at ...
In Habakkuk 1:13, he says, “Your eyes, God, are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?” Once again Habakkuk complains to God about the ...
“Since the Holy Spirit when he is in us effects our being conformed to God, and He actually proceeds from Father and Son, it is abundantly clear that He is of the divine essence, in it in essence and proceeding from it.” Cyril of Alexandria, Treasury of the Holy Trinity, Thesis 34...