Seize the Moment – Day 1402
The Bible Reveals One God!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, January 18.
The Bible is full of rich and meaningful imagery. Today’s chapter is no exception; listen to Isaiah 27:11-13:
When its limbs are dry, they are broken off; women come and make a fire with them, … In that day the Lord will start His threshing from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel. It will come about also in that day that a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
- Jesus used the vineyard imagery from verse 11 in John 15:6, “If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned.”
- The threshing imagery of verse 12 is found in John the Baptist’s words about Jesus in Matthew 3:12, “His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” Jesus also used it in His parable of the wheat and tares in Matthew 13:24-30.
- Jesus quoted the trumpet blast of verse 13 in Matthew 24:31, “And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other” (cf. 1 Corinthians 15:51-58; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18).
Seize the moment and worship the one God who is revealed from cover to cover of the Bible. Take time to find these connections between the Old and New Testament.
God bless you!
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