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Obadiah 1:10-14  — Condemning the Offenses of Edom

Obadiah 1:10-14 — Condemning the Offenses of Edom

BIG IDEA: THE TABLES WILL BE TURNED ON THEIR MALICE AND ALOOFNESS AND GLOATING AND EXPLOITATION INTRODUCTION: David Baker: The external reasons for the fall of Edom are now identified. The surprising reversal of verse 7 (friends turning to enemies) is not that...
Obadiah 1:1-9  — Pride Goes Before a Fall

Obadiah 1:1-9 — Pride Goes Before a Fall

BIG IDEA: GOD OVERTURNS ARROGANCE AND FALSE SECURITY BY COMPLETE DESTRUCTION INTRODUCTION: Leslie Allen: This first section of the composition in vv. 2–9 has analyzed from various angles the theme of the destruction of Edom. Beginning and end have stressed that...
Joel 2:1-17  — Urgent Need for Repentance

Joel 2:1-17 — Urgent Need for Repentance

BIG IDEA: THE ANTICIPATION OF A FUTURE COMING DAY OF THE LORD (EMPHASIS ON POSSIBLE IMMEDIATE INVASION BUT DEFINITE ESCHATOLOGICAL FULFILLMENT) PROMPTS PLEA FOR HEARTFELT REPENTANCE INTRODUCTION: David Baker: The description of the Day builds up throughout this...
Joel 1:1-20  — Devastating Locust Plague

Joel 1:1-20 — Devastating Locust Plague

BIG IDEA: THE DEVASTATION OF THE IMMEDIATE LOCUST PLAGUE AWAKENS WEEPING AND WAILING AND CRYING OUT TO GOD INTRODUCTION: Daniel Epp-Tiessen: Some stories are so meaningful and important to a community or group of people that they must be passed on from generation to...
Hosea 9:1-17  — Punishment for Israel’s Apostasy

Hosea 9:1-17 — Punishment for Israel’s Apostasy

BIG IDEA: THE JUDGMENT OF DISPERSION AND BARRENNESS CHARACTERIZES A NATION ABANDONED BY GOD FOR SPIRITUAL HARLOTRY AND DEEP DEPRAVITY INTRODUCTION: H. D. Beeby: Hosea continues his attack on the cult. In the previous chapters the targets had been idols, altars, and...
Hosea 6:1-3  — Call to Return to the Lord

Hosea 6:1-3 — Call to Return to the Lord

BIG IDEA: THE PATH TO RESTORATION INVOLVES REPENTANCE AND RENEWAL INTRODUCTION: Derek Kidner: There are at least two ways of taking this. One is that God is first portraying in 5:15 – 6:3 the deep conversion that He is working for and will at last evoke – that total...
Hosea 5:1-15  — Inevitability of Judgment

Hosea 5:1-15 — Inevitability of Judgment

BIG IDEA: JUDGMENT IS INEVITABLE BECAUSE OF ISRAEL’S HARLOTRY AND GOD’S HOLY WRATH INTRODUCTION: Derek Kidner: For several chapters now the picture will be building up by fragments, coming at the subject from all kinds of angles. By its very disjointedness the style...