Tag: nathan
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The Righteous Character of the King :: By Dr. Nathan E. Jones
Isaiah’s Christmas Prophecy As the Christmas season gently wraps around us, as if in a warm blanket fresh and fragrant from the dryer, no church service would feel complete without the reading of this wondrous Christmas-time passage: “Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon…
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Israelis Have Yet to Embrace the Consolation of Israel :: Dr. Nathan E. Jones
Note: Our guest contributing authors, Dan and Meg Price, are the husband-and-wife team behind Front Row Seat Ministries, serving the Lord in northern Israel.] Years ago, in my (Meg’s) high school choir’s Christmas program, a fellow student was given a solo that had been written by our choir director, echoing the words of Simeon, who was…
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Convergence Factor: Revealing a Critical Truth :: By Dr. Nathan E. Jones
Have you ever experienced an epiphany? An epiphany is that life-changing moment when you encounter a flash of revelation, often unexpectedly out of the clear blue. The essential meaning of some thought or idea you’ve long held suddenly turns upside-down. You are struck by a newly gained insight that completely upends your once solid perception…
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Was Nathan a false prophet?
After David established himself in Jerusalem, Nathan prophesied: “The Lord declares to you that He, the Lord, will establish a house for you. When your days are done and you lie with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after y…
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Extreme Weather in Prophecy: Part 3 of 3 :: By Nathan Jones
In Part 1 of this teaching about the end times sign of nature as it relates to extreme weather, we learned from the Bible that God does indeed exhibit a pattern of using extreme weather to get a wayward people’s attention and call them back to a right …
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Daniel on the Timely Understanding of Prophecy :: By Nathan E. Jones
“But as for me, I heard but could not understand; so I said, ‘My lord, what will be the outcome of these events?’” (Daniel 12:8). The prophet Daniel had been listening intently to the angel Gabriel pronouncing a series of mind-blowing messages. God was revealing the rise and fall of great empires, leading eventually to a…
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Extreme Weather in Prophecy: Part 1 of 3 :: By Nathan Jones
According to Genesis 1, at the beginning of human history at the Creation, everything that exists was made by God to be originally perfect. But then, sin entered and corrupted everything, so God placed a curse upon the world (Genesis 3). Mankind has lo…
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Extreme Weather in Prophecy: Part 2 of 3 :: By Nathan Jones
In Part 1 of this teaching about the end-times sign of nature as it relates to extreme weather, we looked to the Bible to see that God does indeed exhibit a pattern of using extreme weather to get a wayward people’s attention and call them back to a ri…