The book of Joel is a small book, having only three chapters, but it covers a lot of things. In this short book we can find the four things the Bible and all the Minor Prophets cover – God’s chastisement of His chosen people Israel, God’s punishment of the nations, the manifestation of Christ, and […]
God uses “the locusts” to carry out His purpose and fulfill His interest!
Did you see the divine history within the human history? The truth is that the four kinds of locusts mentioned in Joel 1 and which are now operating in the world are way too obvious and outward and all over the place, and this may cause many saints and lovers of Christ to be wearied […]
seeing the human history according to God and being in the divine history
In the Minor Prophets more than anywhere else we can see that behind and within the outward human history there’s a divine history that is taking place. We are taught history in school and we think that THIS is what’s really going on; but we need to see the universal history according to God’s economy, […]
Christ’s accomplishments in His all-transcending ascension (cords of a man)
All the processes the Lord Jesus as the first God-man passed through are the cords of a man that God used to draw us in His bands of love. He became a man, lived a perfect human life, died an all-terminating death on the cross, and entered into an all-conquering resurrection. Today we were appreciating […]
cords of a man: seeing Christ in His incarnation, human living, and death
God drew us with cords of a man and with bands of love by firstly becoming a man in His incarnation, by living a perfect human on earth, by dying an all-inclusive all-terminating death on the cross, by entering into a life-imparting resurrection, and by being in an all-transcending ascension. Through all these segments of […]
being drawn with cords of a man and bands of love to be in the divine romance
There is a very precious portion of a verse 4 in Hosea 11 which says, “I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love”. Even though we are evil, unchaste, unfaithful, and in apostasy, God drew us with cords of man and with bands of love. He loves us with His divine […]
being transformed in life by God’s everlasting and unchanging love for us
In the Minor Prophets and in the whole Bible we see a universal principle – the principle of restoration. On the one hand, God wants to restore the fallen and corrupted universe back to Himself, and He wants to recover the earth including His people Israel. On the other hand, God wants to have a […]