Daily Thoughts From God's Word

In my Bible, over these chapters, the publisher has placed the heading: “The Lord’s Indictment and Restoration of His People.” It’s as if...

Micah is the last of the four great eighth-century prophets. Like Isaiah, he prophesied in the southern kingdom of Judah. Like the other...

Jonah is a tough book for us to grapple with. You know the story; I’ll not retell it. It’s the callousness and hardness of Jonah’s heart...

We don’t know much at all about Obadiah; we have only this one chapter of his prophecy. Likely, he wrote soon after the beginning of the...

The Lord showed Amos a number of visions, primarily depicting judgment upon the people for their unfaithfulness. I write “primarily” for...

Amos points out that God has done special things for Israel. He delivered his people from bondage (2:10). He destroyed their enemies...

In the opening chapters, the prophet Amos addresses Israel and Judah and, also, the other nations. The God of Israel is the creator and...

Joel describes a terrible locust plague which, I believe, was an actual calamity, not merely a metaphor. The plague did, however, offer...

Reading these last chapters of Hosea, it is easy to reach the conclusion that they provide a treatise on the nature and character of...

Hosea tells of a great discipline that will come to Israel if she does not return to him, a judgment whose description is encapsulated in...

The opening words of chapter four pretty much tell the story of the remaining chapters of the book of Hosea: “Hear the word of the Lord,...

Hosea, one of my favorite OT books. The first three chapters are especially sweet. Hosea’s wife, Gomer, is unfaithful. She has spurned...

Through Hosea, God declared, “In just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to...

These chapters relate the visions seen by Daniel, the first being of the four beasts. In the midst of the scene, Daniel reports, “As I...

Daniel was carried to Babylon in 605 B.C. He, along with his companions, lived lives of faithfulness to the Lord even when threatened...