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War is among the uglliest, if not the ugliest activities anybody can engage in. People don't use the phrase, "war is hell" for nothing. Imagers of God actually killing fellow imagers of God with the sanction, with the approval, with the command of one's respective government. It was no different with Israel, as the Lord commanded his people to go to war. However Moses gave instructions about how soidiers were to ready themselves in preparation to fight against their enemy. What were those instructions? Is engaging in warfare proper for God's people today? Come with the Grace United crew as we discover anew and afresh of God's dealing with warfare, from the perspective of his holiness.

Why didn’t Jesus just say to John’s disciples: “Today you see the glory of the LORD! Today you see the splendor of your God!” Why must Jesus always be so subtle, so oblique, so indirect? “Indirect?” you ask. “Didn’t Jesus point plainly and clearly to the words of Isaiah 35 when He said, ‘Go back and…

This passage of Scripture present Yahweh as the transcendent God who controls the destiny of all nations—not merely Israel. He creates history just as He created the cosmos. The victory of the Assyrians over the Hebrew tribes did not prove the superiority of her god’s over Yahweh. Nor did Judah’s defeat…

Sovereignty of God. At the tender age of six, not having long been in this country, we went down south. Dad was speaking at a Vic Hudson camp at Gunn’s Bush. After the camp, seeing we hadn’t seen much of New Zealand yet, we did a little bit of a tour around and stayed at Duntroon, right next the mighty…

The opening words of Psalm 2 pose a question that has baffled mankind through the centuries. The Psalmist asks, "Why do the nations rage?" That is, why is it so difficult to bring about international peace? Why, after thousands of peace conferences, security accords, and negotiations held through the…

Zephaniah 4. Intro – context: Suppose you were about to enter a room, but you overheard some people talking: “I’ll murder you!” Sinister words! What do you do? Call the cops? Well it depends … you may have heard a sister reacting to her brother who has just sprinkled salt on her wheatbix, you may have…

Nahum 2. The Defeat of Nineveh. Intro: I never had much time for history, but if you don't pay attention to history you are fated to repeat its mistakes. We think that we are the pinnacle of civilisation, that we have advanced, that we have increased our technology and will continue to get greater and…

Nahum [*1] What do you think of the name “Paul”? – having fine Christian parents, probably named after the great apostle – but do you know what it means? – “small and stubborn” – when Mum was particularly frustrated and irritated by my stubbornness, I would remind her who named me! What about the name…

Nahum 3 (part2) Lesson of history: (8-10) [v.8]Who is no better than No-Amon? - Nineveh. We need to remember that this prophecy is not against God's people but against Nineveh which was the capital of the cruel, aggressive, wealthy empire of Assyria which had taken over nearly the whole world. I have…

Micah 5. Assyria invades (v.5): Who is Assyria? In Daniel 2 king Nebuchadnezzar had a dream – its meaning was of human empires, the first being Babylon, the second Medo-Persia, then Greece and a fourth. Babylon is the great human empire that speaks of human effort and pride that pits itself in independence…