| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 50 secs | 0 Comments
Hosea has just spent 13 chapters of doom and gloom prophecy regarding the spiritual state of Old Testament Israel. In chapter 14 we get the vital call to repentance. The call to change their thinking and actions and turn to God. They have stumbled because of iniquity – their thoughts, words and deeds have not […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 43 secs | 0 Comments
Today’s passage is a damning indictment of Israel leading up to God’s disciplining of them in the exile. There was no faithfulness, no steadfast love (the Old Testament word for grace “hesed”), no knowledge of God and widespread breaking of the 10 commandments (swearing, lying, murder and adultery). The fundamental issue for the prophet Hosea […]
| By Andy Moyle | 4 mins 13 secs | 0 Comments
Daniel knew the importance of prayer. He read Jeremiah’s prophecy (Jeremiah 29:10) and realised that the 70 years of exile that God had spoken through Jeremiah were nearly up and so he cries out to God to see this prophecy fulfilled with his people being able to return to Jerusalem. Before Daniel even starts praying, […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 23 secs | 0 Comments
I remember having a book as a child with the illustration of the handwriting on the wall with this story. I found it both amazing and petrifying in equal amounts! Where God has used dreams to speak to King Nebuchadnezzar, here we find him using ghostly apparitions to speak to King Belshazzar. I can quite […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 40 secs | 0 Comments
Chapter 4 begins with Nebuchadnezzar sharing his story about having a dream, it’s interpretation by Daniel and the dream’s fulfilment. It is truly a story of God dealing with pride, ego and arrogance. In verse 30 Nebuchadnezzar says ‘is not this the great Babylon I have built as the royal residence, by my mighty power […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 12 secs | 0 Comments
Nebuchadnezzar has a series of dreams that trouble him. They troubled him enough to interfere with his sleep and be desparate for the interpretation. Daniel, you may have noticed in chapter 1, has the spiritual gift of interpreting dreams and visions. So God will use him to do that in this chapter! It’s my experience […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 57 secs | 0 Comments
We have written a lot about the “exile” over the last month or two as we have been going through the Old Testament. The first 5 verse of today’s reading explain what happened to the two Southern tribes, known as Judah (The 10 northern tribes “Israel” are long gone, intermarrying with pagan locals to become […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 35 secs | 0 Comments
In the 1950s on a fine Summer evening my father would take my siblings and me to Brancaster beach. I could not swim at the time, so I would bravely step into the cold water, and slowly walk out further as water gradually came up my body. On a calm evening I would dare to […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 29 secs | 0 Comments
This is probably the most famous passage in the book of Ezekiel and is the third vision given by God to the prophet in this book. A prophecy containing a very vivid description of restoration brought about by God’s sovereignty. Often I am interested and amazed at some of the historical and archaeology programs on […]