The God Who Speaks

DAILY READING Genesis 2:5-15 REFLECTION In Alignment at the Beginning and the End By Dave Mann Yesterday’s Scripture reading was drawn from the last book of the Bible, Revelation, and today’s passage is from the beginning of the Bible, Genesis. We have a nice set of bookends – the Garden of Eden before the fall into sin and the image of the new heavens and the new earth after the restoration of all things. How many parallel passages are there in Genesis 2 and Revelation 21-22? Genesis...

DAILY READING Jeremiah 50:1-2 Jeremiah 50:39-46 REFLECTION Whose Foundation? By Dave Mann Babylon was used by the Lord to punish Judah for its unfaithfulness to the one true God. The people of Jerusalem were taken into captivity by King Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C. Nebuchadnezzar’s son, Belshazzar, rose to the throne after the death of his father. Babylon, under the rule of Belshazzar, was conquered by the Medes (Persia) in 539 B.C. See Daniel 5, especially verse 30. Marduk was the...