Their king is the angel from the bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon—the Destroyer. (Revelation 9:11 NLT). The Apostle Paul labels Satan as the Destroyer. His purpose is to kill and destroy God’s people. One of his most effective tools he has to accomplish his evil plan is […]
Category Archives: Gleanings from the Word
How blessed is the man whose strength is in You, in whose heart are the highways to Zion (Psalms 84:5 NASB) David was a man whose heart was set on pilgrimage, a man on a heavenly journey. But interestingly, for a man on such a quest, he found himself banished from public worship at […]
And He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise And knowledge to those who have understanding (Daniel 2:21 NKJV). Christianity by its very nature seeks to preserve the sacred Scriptures and the traditions of the past, and rightly so. But sometimes our greatest strength can […]
Insert the Urim and Thummim into the sacred chestpiece so they will be carried over Aaron’s heart when he goes into the Lord’s presence. In this way, Aaron will always carry over his heart the objects used to determine the Lord’s will for his people whenever he goes in before the Lord (Exodus 28:30 NLT). […]
You can identify fools just by the way they walk down the street! (Ecclesiastes 10: 3 NLT) Solomon tells us that like a dead fly in a bottle of perfume, a little foolishness spoils great wisdom and honor. The world perpetuates the idea that when you become a Christian you turn off your ability to […]
Then I observed that most people are motivated to success because they envy their neighbors. But this, too, is meaningless—like chasing the wind (Ecclesiastes 4:4 NLT). The writer of Ecclesiastes is looking at life “under the sun.” He is excluding from his discussion heaven and hell. He concludes that “all is vanity” and life […]
“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? 10. But I, the Lord, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.” (Jeremiah 17:9-10) God judges on two levels; the action and the secret motive […]
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light and your judgment as the noonday (Psalms 37:6 NASB). The great commentator Matthew Henry once wrote, “If we are careful to keep a good conscience, we may leave it to God to take care of our reputation.” We get it wrong. We have a tendency to […]
This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him (I John 5:14). Who does not want […]
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you (Matthew 6:33 NKJV). If I am really honest I have to admit that sometimes I want what I don’t really need, and what I need I do not want. Such is the state of human […]