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In Micah 7, Micah mourns the loss of the people who are refusing to repent and turn to God. What breaks the heart of God should break our hearts and people refusing God and living in eternal judgment should break our hearts. God doesn't want to lose a single soul - but it's our choice. The better we know the character of God, the more we trust Him for the future. The better we know His pro...

In Micah 6, God gives Micah another message of warning to tell His people. They were bringing their sacrifices to God, which were supposed to have been to atone for their sins, but they had no intention of turning from their sins. God called them out on what was really a matter of their hearts. Their sacrifices and religious actions were a routine but not sincere at all. Their hearts were far from...

In Micah 5, God gives a message through Micah that includes the current situation of upcoming takeover by the Babylonians as well as the coming of our Lord and Savior to earth, as well as His mighty return when He removes all evil and wickedness. Jesus stepped out of eternity and into human history when He came to earth fully God and fully human so He could die on our crosses and pour out His God-...

In Micah 4, God gives Micah a glimpse into the coming promised Kingdom of God when Jesus returns and will rule and reign. He will gather the faithful remnant - those who stand firm in Christ and refuse to waiver. We will lead, guide, and teach us all and we will all worship Him. The whole earth. There will be no more war and everyone will live in peace and the prosperity of Jesus - our Lord and Ki...

In Micah 3, God brings a word through Micah directed toward the leaders of the nation. God repeatedly brings Word of warning through the prophets He's sending and instead of listening and heeding the voice of God, they turn a deaf ear and continue to build their pride, wealth, and riches at the expense of people's lives. All of creation responds when God speaks, except the humans made in t...

In Micah 1 & 2, Micah brings a message from God of coming judgment and lets them know exactly why judgment was coming. Pride, arrogance, idolizing wealth and materialism, oppressing and taking advantage of people. They were chasing sin and opposing God. They were after the "good life" rather than the humble life. They didn't believe judgment and laughed it off - until judgment ar...

In Nahum 2 & 3, God tells Nineveh how they will fall and why they are falling. The vast city would be overtaken by the Babylonians in 612 BC and completely wiped out in 609 BC in the battle of Haran. Their pride, arrogance, and wealth would all be destroyed. They were a nation after ruthless bloodshed, idolatry, pride, and self-confidence. They were overconfident and believed they were at the...

In Nahum 1, approximately 100 years later, Nineveh has turned back to their evil, prideful ways and God sends another warning of coming judgment. This time, this generation doesn't listen or repent and judgment will fall in 612 BC when Babylon takes over Assyria. God will not share His people with false gods and false idols any more than a husband would share his wife with his neighbor. God sh...

In Jonah 4, instead of praising God and rejoicing in the salvation of an entire nation, Jonah, in his arrogant, judgmental pride, goes to the east side of the city to sulk and pout. The heart of every problem is a problem of the heart and God is doing a work in Jonah's heart. Through the help of a green, leafy plant, God reminds Jonah what it feels like to be lost, hopeless, and miserable. The...

In Jonah 3, God redirects Jonah back to His call and mission. Jesus is the only One in Scripture who didn't need a 2nd chance and that's because He's our Messiah. God is the God of 2nd chances. He hadn't changed His mind or given up on Jonah. Through this mission in Nineveh, He was also doing a work in Jonah. Nineveh was going to either be terminated or transformed and it all hinge...

In Jonah 2, Jonah cries out to God in a prayer of desperation. Forgetting he is a sinner, he's pridefully and arrogantly judging an entire nation and doesn't want them to hear the message God has for them. We aren't called to judge, that's God's lane. He's the only One who can see the human heart. God has no favorites and wants everyone to hear the Good News of His Mercy an...

In Jonah 1, God calls Jonah to go to Nineveh to plead with the people there to repent and turn to God. Nineveh was in Assyria and Assyria was a nation known for their evil brutality and opposition of Israel. Jonah had a bad attitude toward God's will and His Word as he rejects it and turns away thinking he can "take it or leave it". Jonah needed Nineveh as much as Nineveh needed Jona...

In Obadiah, God gives a message of warning of coming judgment to the nation of Edom. Edom was violent sinful nation. They were prideful and opposed God and His people. They trusted in themselves, their alliances, and their wealth - but not God. Without God, alliances, wealth and our selfish ambitions mean nothing. Their wisdom would become confusion and their armies would be destroyed. God promise...

In Amos 9, God gives Amos three warnings of coming judgment followed by a final encouraging promise of mercy, restoration, and regathering. God warned that a strike was coming to the land. People repeatedly refused to repent and turn to God and instead chased after false idols and false gods that did them no good. The time had come for judgment to fall and Assyria did attack. Instead of repent, Hi...

In Amos 8, God gives Amos a vision of ripe fruit. God had been calling out, crying out, and shouting out to His people by sending prophet after prophet. He is patient and desperately wants every soul to answer His call. Unfortunately for Israel, they refused and even told God's prophets to "Go Away". They were stubborn, prideful, and in love with their sinful lives. They exploited an...

In Amos 7, Amos receives visions from God of coming plagues of judgment in response to His people choosing to worship sin, evil, and false gods. God is holy and pure and perfect and cannot let sin go unpunished. In His mercy and grace, He sent us Jesus so we can have the option to apply the blood Jesus shed for each of us to our lives and be seen as holy and righteous before our Lord. Amos pleaded...

In Amos 6, God brings warning to the indifferent, selfish people who choose comfort and gluttony over God. They live for selfish pleasures rather than the glory of God. God's people had become self-confident, falsely confident, and arrogant. God knows our hearts and sees what and who we love. Complacency is motivated by pride and based on lies. It leads to trusting everything and everyone else...

In Amos 5, God brings forth a call for repentance. If they refused to repent and turn from sin and false idols, judgment was coming and their sin would be dealt with. God cries out for us to seek Him, seek Life only found in Him. If we refuse, God will let us have our sin and our sin will lead to death and destruction. God leads to Life for all eternity. He desires each and every person to choose...

In Amos 4, God cries out to His children regarding their worship of materialism, luxury, and gluttony. They offer God fake lip service in their ritualistic ceremonies, but their hearts are from from God. They steal and oppress the poor and needy while they bask in the fine luxuries of life and pour out more wine. They refuse to repent and turn back to God in spite of continuous warning. He pours o...

In Amos 2 & 3, God gives warning through Amos to Moab and then to Judah and Israel as well. God called again and again for people of all nations to repent and turn to Him. He gives us a lifeboat, but it's up to us to choose to step in. Instead of hearing, listening, and heeding God's call, they refuse. They love their sin and false idol worship more and continually rebel and turn away...

In Amos 1, God sends another prophet to warn His people of what was coming if they refused to repent and turn to God. His opening warnings are for the surrounding nations who continually oppress, murder, and enslave the people around them - including God's children. Everyone would be accountable for their own sins and had the option to repent and turn to God. God sees and hears and knows all....

In Joel 3, we get a preview of the ultimate coming "Day of the Lord". In the end of the end of the last day, it says in Scripture love will grow cold and apathy will rise both towards love for God and the people He created. It tells us times will get harder before they get better. Scriptures also tell us we do not live in a spirit of fear but out of the victory of our Lord and Savior. Th...

In Joel 2, Joel moves forward to the coming judgment of the Assyrian army that would invade Israel and Judah and would completely destroy Israel. He cries out to God's people to repent and turn to Him. To return to God. He reminds us God is merciful, compassionate, slow to anger, and filled with unfailing love. He desperately wants every person to call on the name of the Lord, repent, and humb...

In Joel 1, a plague of locusts devastates the land. 4 stages of locusts come in each taking what the previous left behind until nothing is left. Rather than humbling themselves and repenting before God, His people merely grieve over their desperate situation. God wants us to grieve over our sins, repent, humble ourselves before Him, and trust Him with each and every one of our minutes while on ear...

In Hosea 12-14, God's people continually chase the wind of sin and false idols rather than the eternal security found in God. When judgment falls and time has run out, their false idols can do nothing for them. People beg for God's help in distress but then in their prosperity, they become proud and turn away from God forgetting all about Him. God pleads for people to turn to Him before it...