1 Corinthians 4:5 "...judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts" Some things are hard to determine because we don't have all the facts or can't know everything. But God can. One day He will return …
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1 Corinthians 2:1-5 Paul is still working on the thought he started in chapter 1. The importance of the gospel is Christ, not our wisdom is presenting it. And he was careful to keep Christ out front so the people wouldn't look to Paul as anything special. Unfortunately, they did anyway. It is a trap …
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1 Corinthians:1 "...called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ..." Some have suggested that Paul was the one selected by God to replace Judas from the original twelve. Not much is heard of Matthias in relation to the others, and Paul seems to get more attention in the New Testament. Certainly God chose Paul as …
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Daniel 11:1 "...in the first year of Darius the Mede, I, even I, stood up to confirm and strengthen him" Chapters 10-12 are continuous, they continue the same vision and explanation. The angel is finishing a thought from the end of chapter 10. He has been working with Michael in the spiritual warfare which has …
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Daniel 10:1 "...third year of Cyrus king of Persia..." Cyrus's decree to rebuild the temple was during his first year, so this is two years later. Daniel didn't go with the returning exiles. Not told why, but if he was a teenager when he was captured, he could be between eighty-five and ninety-one years old. …
Daniel 9:2 "...understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem" Jeremiah had prophesied that the captivity would last 70 years. He wrote that in the letters he sent to the exiles. Daniel had …
Daniel 8:1 "In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar..." Two years after the first dream. 1 "...a vision appeared unto me..." Apparently while he was awake as opposed to the one he had before which was while he was sleeping. 2 "...Shushan in the palace..." He not only sees visions of the future, …
Black & White with Shades of Gray 