Today, I’m going somewhat controversial on you. I was trained in the tradition of a “pre-Tribulation Rapture”. Whoa, whoa, whoa! you say. Too confusing. I don’t understand it. Don’t go there, you say. Watch me. (grinning) There’s a reason I hold timing of “The Rapture” loosely, the Rapture, of course, being that moment of the […]
Exodus 2:23 During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. 24 God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. God hadn’t forgotten. Remembering with […]
At this point in Biblical history, Pharaohs come and go. God’s plan still rules. God even has a sense of humor about it. Human power structures are only tools that God can use for His own purposes whenever He wants. Look at the rich irony in today’s reflection. Pharaoh was ticked off about the Hebrew […]
When we love and serve a God who is all-seeing, all-knowing, and ever-present, we need to understand that Divine Interventions happen on His time schedule, not ours. In His ways, not ours. And often with a convoluted path leading to surprising outcomes. Such was the case with Pharaoh who didn’t know God at all. In […]
Pop-tests were always the worst, in my experience. Catching us off-guard. Seeing how truly prepared and attentive we are at any given moment. Testing our nerves, our resolve, and our knowledge. Showing us who we are when we’re not expecting anything to happen. Abraham had a pop-test to beat all pop-tests. He wasn’t expecting it. […]
Do you ever find it interesting that the genealogies of Jesus of Nazareth–our Lord and Savior, the Messiah, the Christ–are different in Matthew’s and Luke’s versions? Luke’s goes all the way back to Adam to display the foundational level is humanity’s dire need for salvation since the Garden of Eden and the consequence of sin. […]
No more flood. Got it. God remembers. But it doesn’t mean God doesn’t get fed up. There’s a point at which everything reaches a boiling stage, and something must be done. But now instead of a worldwide flood, there will be local interventions. Divine Interventions. Such is the case with Sodom and Gomorrah. God didn’t […]
Advent comes toward the end of the year. Each of us has a past in this year (and with COVID 2020 has been a doozy!) and most of us have a past that includes prior years. Sometimes that past is something we’d like to forget. Sometimes our past is something we need to release to […]
So soon after the flood and humanity got a population movement going, what do we do? We get right back to sinning. We go right back to idolatry, making names for ourselves instead of glorifying the Name of God whom we should fear, especially after the flood. But there we go again, more concerned about […]
I can’t begin to imagine how frightening it must have been to be in the ark when the rain came down, and a world full of people cried in anguish as they watched loved ones die by drowning before succumbing to it themselves. I hope the ark was soundproof or animal noises within made the […]
