Day: May 8, 2016
35 The Kings Funeral Dirge
The Lord tells Ezekiel that he is to lift up or carry a funeral song (Hebrew keennah) for the princes of Israel. From chapter two verse ten the scroll the Lord made Ezekiel eat contained “written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.” Therefore this chapter may be viewed as a conclusion to entire first part of the book. In this chapter there two allegorical dirges in poetical form. One is for the kings in verses 1-9 and the second is for the people of Judah in verses 10-14. Even though the present king of Judah was Zedekiah, this dirge or …
I am the Lord, I do not change. (Malachi 3:6)
The authority of darkness is a very real thing to us. We have experiences, and if we were to capitulate to them, that would be the end of us. He tries to bring upon us that impingement of the authority of darkness, and if we surrender to it, capitulate to it, accept it, we are beaten. If we are the Lord’s, Christ is within, and Christ is supreme and we must go on even if we have no feeling, or if we have a very bad feeling; when it seems to be the last thing we ought to be …
The Test of Time
Exodus 16:1–36 Bread from Heaven 16 They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. 2 And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, 3 and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and …