Gilbert House Fellowship #243: Job 5
2019-11-10
WE SEE the divine council worldview in the ongoing discourse of Eliphaz the Temanite, as he mentions the “Holy Ones,” an epithet used elsewhere in the Old Testament for the Watchers (Daniel 4:13, 17).
Gilbert House Fellowship #241: Job 1
2019-10-27
JOB HAS become a symbol for patient suffering in the face of overwhelming adversity, but there’s a lot more to his story than that.
Gilbert House Fellowship #199: Ezekiel 33-36
2018-07-01
THE ROLE and responsibility of a watchman opens this week’s study. But there is a deeper sense of the word, a meaning rooted in the similarity of the words for “Watcher” (Strong’s H5894) and “city” (Strong’s H5982), which is a place guarded by a watch.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #195: Ezekiel 23-27
2018-04-29
SHOCKING LANGUAGE intended to wake up the people of Judah kicks off our study of Ezekiel this week. Through the prophet, God compared the pagan practices of the nations to lewd behavior, and Ezekiel didn’t soften the language at all.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #161: Isaiah 21-27
2017-05-21
ISAIAH PROPHESIED the fall of Babylon before it had risen. At the time of the prophesies we read this week, Assyria was still the dominant power in the ancient Near East, but the phrase, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon,” was revealed to the prophet anyway.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #158: 2 Chr 28; 2 Kings 16-17; Isaiah 13-14
2017-04-30
ALREADY BUT not yet. That’s a phrase we use often when discussing Bible prophecy, and it’s appropriate again this week. We discuss the destruction of the northern kingdom, Israel, by the Assyrians as punishment for abandoning the LORD. Then we look at two chapters of the fascinating Book of Isaiah.Continue Reading