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“A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit. The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him — the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of power, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD — and…
“The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between His feet, until He comes to whom it belongs and the obedience of the nations is His.” — Genesis 49:10 What is so fun and amazing about this series of Advent devotions on Messianic prophecies is that it is all from the Old…
“I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” — Genesis 12:3 “Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north, and to the south. All…
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” — Genesis 3:15 (NIV84 This Advent devotional series is on Old Testament prophecies. It is amazing to consider that the Jesus we love and worship was promised from the…
“Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other. ” (Isaiah 45:22, NASB95) Many years before Isaiah wrote this verse, another prophet, Moses, pleaded for the children of Israel to look and be saved. Moses and the people were traveling through the wilderness when, because…
“Your dead will live; their corpses will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy, for your dew is as the dew of the dawn, and the earth will give birth to the departed spirits.” — Isaiah 26:19 (NASB95) Many wrongly think that the concepts of life after death and bodily resurrection…
“Jesus told them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.’” — Matthew 13:24 (NIV84) This is yet another reference to the kingdom of heaven by Jesus in the 13th chapter of Matthew. It was obviously very important to Jesus that He convey to us what the…
“You turn things around! Shall the potter be considered as equal with the clay, that what is made would say to its maker, ‘He did not make me’; or what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘He has no understanding’?” — Isaiah 29:16 (NASB95) This verse is a striking condemnation of modern-day humanism. We…
And the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. Have them wash their clothes and be ready by the third day, because on that day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. Put limits for the people around the mountain…
“When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: ‘You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.’” (Luke 3:21–22, NIV84) At…