FIRST, we need some background in various Scripture passages Key Point: Humanity is in Darkness of Sin and LIGHT is symbolic of Salvation Colossians 1:13-18 We read the astounding glory of our King Jesus. What we learn from those verses includes:v. 13 He “Delivered us from darkness” ...
The breadth of God’s mercy and love is beyond our comprehension, but it is most certainly not scriptural to suggest that people who have actively rejected Jesus as their Savior are still redeemed. When Peter denied Jesus the third time, making an oath, he brought a curse upon himself (Mat...
Cursed be he that confirmeth not the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.GOD'S WORD® Translation"Whoever doesn't obey every word of these teachings will be cursed." Then all the people will say amen.Good News Translation"'God's curse on anyone who ...
If we had done nothing, the curse would never have taken the Dreaming City.Failure visits us as inevitably as death. But we are reborn. There are no second chances, not for any choice we make: but there is always the chance to do better at the next one....
And it shall be that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has; because he has transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and because he has done wickedness in Israel.Peshitta Holy Bible TranslatedAnd whoever is taken with the curse will ...
On the other hand, the focus of Part Two, “Suffering with Cause”, is the response of biblical saints to suffering as punishment for sin, whether their own sin or that of others. Lastly, Part Three examines the wisdom concerning suffering that the Son of God brought to man when he ...
He was under the wrath and curse of God, and condemned to everlasting burning. — But the sin and misery of man, by this contrivance, are made an occasion of his being more happy, not only than he was before the fall, but than he would have been if he never had fallen....
The falling leaf is an ancient trope for decline and fall, and we mortals tend to take it personally. “I have lived long enough,” lamented Shakespeare’s Macbeth: … my way of life Is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf;
To wit,Jerusalem, and thecities of Judah... to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse as it is this day;Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people... and all thekings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land...
Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg. Treasury of Scripture Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. ...