Patterns in Isaiah 25 The LORD’S Banquet Patterns in the Bible may be a little difficult to spot. When you find a pattern in scripture, how do you use that pattern? What do you learn from those patterns you find? In a sense, patterns open up a new view on scripture. When you begin to…
Isaiah 58:6-12 Your Salvation Will Come Like the Dawn
Isaiah 58:6-12 Your Salvation Will Come Like the Dawn Isaiah 58:6-12 NLTse “No, this is the kind of fasting I want: Free those who are wrongly imprisoned; lighten the burden of those who work for you. Let the oppressed go free, and remove the chains that bind people. (7) Share your food with the hungry,…
Exodus 16:21 Manna
Exodus 16:21 Manna Exodus 16:21 KJV And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted. After a number of plagues Pharaoh finally gave up for a time, letting Israel go free. It was an answer to a question Moses asked when he first approached…
Laws of the Prophets
Laws of the Prophets So let us stop going over the basic teachings about Christ again and again. Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding. Surely we don’t need to start again with the fundamental importance of repenting from evil deeds and placing our faith in God. You don’t need further…
Discovering the Studies of the Great Disappointment
Discovering the Studies of the Great Disappointment What lessons should the disappoint have taught us? I thought it would be interesting to reverse engineer this information to find out what methods of study Ellen White and the others may have used. Maybe this will show how, or why this information was missed, and reveal the…
Isaiah 59:1-21 Webs of Misery and Destruction
Isaiah 59:1-21 Webs of Misery and Destruction This is a short Bible study on Isaiah chapter 59 that shows how to find where the fulfillment to this prophecy is recoded and how to check to ensure you have the correct fulfillment. In other words, how to eliminate any guesswork in matching prophecies to their recorded…
Malachi 4:5-6 Sending You the Prophet Elijah
Malachi 4:5-6 Sending You the Prophet Elijah Malachi 4:5-6 NLTse “Look, I am sending you the prophet Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the LORD arrives. (6) His preaching will turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise I will come and strike the…
Jeremiah 11:15-19 Lamb to Slaughter
Jeremiah 11:15-19 Lamb to Slaughter Jeremiah 11:15-19 NLTse (15) “What right do my beloved people have to come to my Temple, when they have done so many immoral things? Can their vows and sacrifices prevent their destruction? They actually rejoice in doing evil! (16) I, the LORD, once called them a thriving olive tree, beautiful…
Isaiah 40:1-15 God the Designer
Isaiah 40:1-15 God the Designer Isaiah 40:1-15 NLTse “Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God. (2) “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem. Tell her that her sad days are gone and her sins are pardoned. Yes, the LORD has punished her twice over for all her sins.” (3) Listen! It’s the voice of someone shouting, “Clear the…
Isaiah 9:6-7 A Child is Born
Isaiah 9:6-7 A Child is Born This is a short study on the prophecy Isaiah recorded about Jesus’ birth. The main theme behind this type of study is to hone basic Bible Study skills. Of course the fulfillment of this prophecy was also recorded in the Bible. Now all we have to do is compare…