Years earlier, Jacob had met God at Bethel while he was running for his life. He had a stone for a pillow and a brother behind him who wanted him dead. That was where heaven opened over him. Now, after all those years, God told him to go back. “Arise, go up to Bethel, and
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Zechariah saw something like a courtroom. “He shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.” Joshua was the high priest, the man who was supposed to represent the people before God. And yet “Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and
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John begins his first letter with the message he heard from Jesus Himself: “that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” There is nothing hidden in God, nothing crooked, nothing false. That raises a problem for people like us, because there is darkness in us. John does not let us pretend
“Clean” is a word every child learns early. Here the Lord Jesus uses the Greek word katharos, which means pure, cleansed, free from what defiles. It is the same word He used in Matthew 5:8: “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” Just one verse earlier, the Father “purgeth” the fruitful
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There’s something almost satisfying about loading up the truck and heading to the dump. Not because the job is easy—it’s usually dusty, tiring, and long overdue—but because you know what it represents. Old boxes, broken things, things you thought you needed but never used… all finally getting cleared out. Cleaning out the garage forces you
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