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When I did youth ministry, we would take kids to Chuck E Cheese. They had a game called Whack-a-mole. In WAM, moles pop up out of holes and you have to hammer them back down. But as soon as you slam one, another pops up. And on and on it goes. The thing about this game and the reason it’s just evil,…

As in Heaven, So on Earth this is familiar for Christians, it’s part of the Lord’s Prayer Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. the kingdom of God is the rule of God. God desires to rule over ALL he has created: the invisible spiritual realm and the visible earthly realm.…

summary The focus in this episode is Ezek 28:1-19 . This is a controversial passage. he debate is over just who the prince of Tyre in vv. 11-19 is being compared to — i.e., what is the point of analogy? Many say that the prince of Tyre is being compared to Adam in Eden. This would mean that it is Adam…

Introduction This Torah Portion goes from Numbers 16:1-18:32 Bemidbar The Israelites who escaped from Egypt, witnessed the Sinaitic revelation, erected the Tabernacle, and were instructed in the operation of it (as described in Exodus and Leviticus) now prepare themselves militarily and spiritually for…

Palm Sunday Foretold by the Prophets 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 22 The stone which the builders rejected…

Where do we start? 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments; His praise endures forever. What do we tend to fear? The unknown…

Have you ever wondered if justice will ever prevail? Like me, do you find yourself lamenting because wickedness and injustice prospers? I have good news! It will not always be so. We can rejoice in God’s judgement. Revelation 18:1-3 . 1 After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great…

Come, let's worship him who sits on the throne. Jesus’ outline of Revelation: Revelation 1:19 . 19 Write therefore the things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this. What was seen: Jesus Glorified - Revelation 1:9-20 . What is: the Seven Churches - Revelation 2-3…

Welcome to Session 2 of Hickory Corners Bible Church Basics! As a reminder, this is meant to be a 9-week class to give you a solid overview of what we believe, and how it is that we operate based upon that belief. These sessions will all build upon each other, so if you missed last week, I highly recommend…

You need a prayerfully focused plan to live an eternal meaningful life.

Stir up the gift of God Our theme verse today is 2 Timothy 1:6-7 6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. 7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. What Paul said to Timothy…

Trouble in Paradise The story of the Fall of humanity in Genesis 3 seems straightforward, perhaps because we’ve heard it told so many times. The truth is that this passage presents a lot of interpretive questions. We’ve covered some of those earlier, but now it is time to look at one of the main characters…

++The word ”Lucifer” is not in most manuscripts. ++The Hebrew word for “Venus,” who was known in mythology as "the morning star," was found there in Ezek. 28 . ++That word for “Venus,” translated into Latin , is “Lucifer.” ++However, “Lucifer” is not a proper name given by Scripture, for the angel, “Satan.”…

Is Lucifer — Satan, in the Bible? ( Ezekiel 28:11-19 ) ++The word ”Lucifer” is not in most manuscripts. ++The Hebrew word for “Venus,” who was known in mythology as "the morning star," was found there in Ezek. 28 . ++That word for “Venus,” translated into Latin , is “Lucifer.” ++However, “Lucifer” is…

Isaiah 20-23 Good evening Church! We are continuing on in the prophecy of Isaiah, attempting to complete this section where the prophet has been addressing the surrounding nations. Lots of stuff going on in this section, and I acknowledge that it is a difficult large chunk of Isaiah to get through, but…

Leviathan imagery the Leviathan imagery with the Genesis 3 imagery. But catch the point here—there's a certain logic to portraying the divine enemy in this way because the serpent becomes a symbol of disorder, disruption, adversarial hostility to the way God wants things. That is not an accident. In…

Genesis 3:14-15 Dec 17, 1927 8 year old S class submarine conducting tests off coast of MA. 2273 Any Hope Of Rescue? Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life. Years ago the S-4 submarine was rammed…

Introduction Well good morning once again. It’s good to be with you today. Go ahead and turn in your Bible to the book of Hebrews, chapter 3. We are going to be diving into verses 7-19 this morning. As you do that I want to call your attention to a couple of additional announcements. On June 26 we are…

Summary Ezekiel 16 is known for being the most sexually explicit chapter in the Bible. Some scholars even consider it pornographic. The prophet casts the city of Jerusalem as a whore when articulating why God has condemned it and marked it for destruction. This episode explores the portrayal of spiritual…

Summary Revelation 21-22 is John’s climactic vision of the new Jerusalem and new earth. In Part 1 we looked at how Israelites thought about the concept of “temple” and how that concept led John to conflate the expectation of a new temple and see fulfillment of that expectation in a city (the new Jerusalem)…

Introduction Now there is a difficulty in this chapter that we need to address. I'm betting it's one that no one in the audience has ever heard before, but this is the kind of thing you'll run into in Israelite Religion in graduate school or in Daniel class or something like that. And that is, the reference…

God dispersed the people for their own good, then later He united the peoples out of His mercy.

Summary Revelation 21-22 is John’s climactic vision of the new Jerusalem and new earth. Not unexpectedly, there are deep Old Testament roots underlying his vision. But it is often a surprise to note that John specifically informs us that his end of days vision about the new, forever presence of God on…

Does anyone know what this picture represents? This might be the most amazing data picture you see in a lifetime! It shows the 63,779 cross-references in the Bible. The white bars along the bottom represent each Bible chapter, Gen. 1 - Rev. 22 . The line’s color shows the reference’s distance from the…

summary Revelation 17-18 overlaps a good deal with elements in preceding chapters, most notably 13-16. In those earlier chapters readers were introduced to the Beast, the symbolic representation of anti-Eden chaos drawn from Daniel 7 ; Babylon as a metaphor for that system and cipher for the present…