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Isa 26:20 Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, until the indignation is past. This is an allusion of the Passover experience in Exodus chapter 12. The four verbs; come, enter, close and hide strongly explains the depth and importance of…
1Sa 17:46 “This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may…
1Ki17:2The word of the Lord came to him ‘Depart from here and turn Eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith” The God we serve operates in ways we don’t comprehend at times. Later, we come to see the bigger picture. Elijah told King Ahab that there would be no rain for the next few…
2Co 12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong. How can a weak man be strong? Paul , in the midst of all his many infirmities and reproaches never complained against God. He discovered that the…
Rev 2:13 I know where you live–where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city–where Satan lives. Where does the devil reside?Who would wish to live in…
Psalms 42:1-2 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? Panting and thirsting are common to the deer especially after hot pursuit by the predators. David used this analogy to…
Exo 34:2 “So be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me there on the top of the mountain. Moses was ordered by God to present himself before the Lord up on the mountain early in the morning. He was to chisel out two stone…
Num 14:44 But they presumed to go up to the mountaintop; nevertheless, neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses departed from the camp. Num 14:45 Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt in that mountain came down and attacked them, and drove them back as far as Hormah. The Israelites…
Num 13:31 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”Num 13:32 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”…
Mt 28:5-7 The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the…