Jesus entered the Temple and pronounced His judgment. The Son was astonished at what was going on in the structure upon which the Lord set His Name. He saw what this place had become. Its defilement fueled His sacred rage. He cleared out all of those doing business there. The...
The disciples were so eager for the Kingdom moment. We read about their excitement in the first chapter of Acts. They were walking with Jesus toward Mount Olivet, the place where earlier He had given them a short rundown of how the Final Chapter would play out. It was now...
Alpha. Omega. The Beginning. The Ending. The First. The Last. These were words Jesus used to describe Himself. Notice the use of the definite article “the” before some of these words. This article is one of limitation, a narrowing word in its work as a modifier. The placing of “the”...
“Until I went to the sanctuary of God …” This phrase shows up smack in the middle of Psalm 73, a piece of poetry attributed to Asaph. The words he strung together are something of a confession. He admits that envy nearly got the best of him. He explains the...
“For then must He often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. … And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ...
