Search results for: "judgment-god's" (24)

David’s Disobedience to God Causes a National Pestilence (1 Chronicles 21:1-17)

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David also suffers another failure that, to us in the 21st century, may seem strange. He takes a census of the people of...

The Economic Consequences of National Wrongdoings (Psalm 81, 85)

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Despite the attention to personal judgment we have seen in Psalm 73, in most of Book 3, it is the nation of Israel that...

The Workplace Consequences of Personal Failings (Psalm 73)

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Psalm 73 depicts a four-fold journey of temptation and faithfulness, playing it out in the psalmist's work.[1] In the...

Anxiety When Unscrupulous People Succeed (Psalms 49, 50, 52, 62)

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What I Wish I Had Said at the Occupy Wall Street Protest (Click Here to Read) In this daily reflection...

When Leadership Leads to Unpopularity (Numbers 13 and 14)

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Another challenge to Moses’ authority arises in Numbers 13 and 14. The Lord tells Moses to send spies into the land of...

The Challenge to Moses’ Authority (Numbers 12)

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In Numbers 12, Moses’ brother and sister, Aaron and Miriam, try to launch a revolt against his authority. They...

People Fall into Sin in Work (Genesis 3:1-24)

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Adam's and Eve’s decisions stretch all the way to the modern workplace.

Moses and Aaron Announce God’s Judgment to Pharaoh (Exodus 7:1-12:51)

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God began the first step—deliverance—by sending Moses and Aaron to tell Pharaoh “to let the Israelites go out of...

God’s Punishing Hand at Work (Nahum 1:1-12; Habakkuk 3:1-19; Zephaniah 1:1-13)

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Nahum’s chief contribution is to make it clear that the political and economic disaster is God’s punishment or...

Theme C Revisited: Humbling and Overthrow of the Pagan King (Daniel 5)

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For an explanation of the themes in and structure of the Book of Daniel, see the section "The Big Picture in the Book of...

Israel’s Systemic Breakdown (Ezekiel 22)

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If the exiled Jews in Babylon missed the positive example in chapter 18, Ezekiel 22 gives them an explicit picture of...

Material Success and Failure (Jeremiah 5)

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Does God withhold material success from those who do evil in his sight? Jeremiah says what few modern Christians would...