| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 0 secs | 0 Comments
There’s a great line in Home Alone “Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal.” John the Baptist is just as brutal to the leaders of his nation Happy Advent, “You brood of vipers.” He’s a wild man – dressed in camel’s hair clothing and a diet of locusts and wild honey. But this wild eyed, desert living […]
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This, the last chapter in the Old Testament, brings into focus the coming of the “day of the LORD”, and the warning which comes with this is very serious, and should take hold of the attention of all who read it. This coming event brings both bad and good tidings. Which do you want to […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 6 secs | 0 Comments
Zechariah has been prophesying a large scale turning of Jews to Jesus their Messiah in the last days. As we reach the last chapter, Zechariah with some pretty vivid imagery and symbolism describes the end days, while alluding to what will also happen in the days we are in! There will be a final battle […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 13 secs | 0 Comments
Much of the Old Testament is doom and gloom to try and get the very sinful people of God to repent and follow the Lord well. But repentance and following Jesus are works of the Spirit. We need the Spirit to reveal to our deceitful hearts our wickedness and we need his power alongside our […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 40 secs | 0 Comments
An angel awakens Zechariah to give him his fifth vision! You would think that being given visions from an angel would stop you from falling asleep, but it would appear that it was exhausting work. I reckon it was a case of ‘the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak’. The angel asks him […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 50 secs | 0 Comments
We are easily distracted! A phone ping, a noise outside, getting to the top of the stairs daydreaming and then trying to remember what you were fetching! Haggai is prophesying at a time when the returned Israelites have been distracted for… 18 years. They had come back from the exile to rebuild the Temple and […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 32 secs | 0 Comments
When we moved to the town of March in Cambridgeshire in 1989 the fellowship we joined had no building of its own, but did own a piece of land in the town. They initially had plans drawn up by an architect, but they couldn’t build because they did not have the finance, and also there […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 39 secs | 0 Comments
Zephaniah was related to Hezekiah, a godly king who ruled in about 715-687 bc. The prophet lived during the reign of Josiah (640-609 bc) who re-established worship in the temple. The first chapter of Zephaniah’s prophecy is filled with terror as he speaks about the judgement that would happen for all who would defy the […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 17 secs | 0 Comments
The Ninevites were nasty! Nineveh was the capital of the kingdom of Assyria, which was the leading power in the Middle East for around 130 years (c.740-610BC). They were known for their ruthlessly cruel treatment of those they conquered. In 722BC, the northern kingdom of Israel had been defeated by Assyria, and many Israelites were […]