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The book of Job vividly illustrates how God reverses Satan's most vicious schemes against God's servant, so that they end up providing exactly what he needs for his life forever. God brings all things together for good to His people who love Him, but we shall also see clearly from Job why sometimes it is literally impossible to see the real good that God will produce out of a terrible event while it is happening. This book contains a shorter i...

The Bible uses the heart to represent the whole inner person, the part of a person that receives a new body as he (she) moves from life on earth into the rest of eternity. Because the heart is the key to each person's eternal good, our loving God makes purifying our hearts a priority. He gives true progress, but He also wants each of His children in Jesus to co-operate with His work for our good. This allows major problems. A heart often ha...

This book is a collection of 12 appendices and 4 chapter supplements to GOD'S JUST JUDGMENT OF A NATION. This SUPPLEMENT or topics in it probably are best for those who have read or are reading that core book, although I make each discussion full enough to stand by itself. Here I call attention to Apx. 4, which shows God's justice to all and mercy to many in His way to judge nations generations after some sins. Apx. 5 shows God's government of...

Many Christians have wondered why there is no prophecy about the United States in the Bible, because it prophesies much about the world today. In this book we can see clearly that God prophesies about the U.S. in Obadiah as the nation approaches choosing decisively for or against Jesus. Obadiah reveals two alternative futures: one will be chosen, which will also reject the other. One future is gross sin and a resulting just judgment of being d...

Many Christians have wondered why there is no prophecy about the United States in the Bible, because it prophesies much about the world today. In this book we can see clearly that God prophesies about the U.S. in Obadiah as the nation approaches choosing decisively for or against Jesus. Obadiah reveals two alternative futures: one will be chosen, which will also reject the other. One future is gross sin and a resulting just judgment of being d...

A Christianity with little of Christ for generations causes a nation to become like Judah in Malachi. This includes the U.S. Many people here have hearts hardened against the true God and His words to us. Malachi shows that God is preparing His faithful people, so that at the right time He will release them mightily as He did Jesus in Judea. This will heal the hardened hearts of many people who have not yet really tasted God's goodness in Jesu...

A Christianity with little of Christ for generations causes a nation to become like Judah in Malachi. This includes nations in Western Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. Many people in all these nations have hearts hardened against the true God and His words to us. Malachi shows that God is preparing His faithful people, so that at the right time He will release them mightily as He did Jesus in Judea. This will heal the harde...

Mankind has many conflicting ideas about what God is really like. God created the whole material universe by His Word, and then the Word of God emptied Himself to become a speck in a tiny part of it. Why? To show people exactly what God would be like if He lived in a limited human body like our own. This also allowed Him to become a perfect Example of how we should live on earth and to pay a just price for the sins of mankind, His creation. Th...

2Peter 1:8-11 promises that by increasingly doing verses 5-7, we shall receive great promises: being useful and fruitful in knowing Jesus, never stumbling, and being abundantly supplied the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Verse 4 adds that we become partakers of the divine nature. Clearly we should understand the meaning and content of this little Scripture.

The book of Job demontrates God's ability to turn Satan's most vicious schemes against Job or a believer in Jesus into providing exactly what His child needs for his or her eternal good. We get to see the extraordinary fulfillment of Romans 8:28 for Job, and see how He is ready to fulfill it for each believer who continues to walk with Him in love.

Jesus introduced the idea of servant leadership and showed us how to do it. God requires leaders in His Kingdom to lead in this way so that every one of His children can have his or her true needs met. This is true on earth, but a shortage of servant leadership works against the total fulfillment of His loving design for mankind. This will be fulfilled far better in the great eternity that He provides His children. He works to prepare His chil...

The Day of the Lord on a nation is its just judgment by God: a nation's full accountability to the just and loving God for the nation's sins throughout its history. In the Bible, the Day of the Lord refers to God's just judgment of a nation far more often than to Jesus' return to earth (which also is a good meaning). The Bible shows many examples of His judgment of ancient nations as whole units. National judgments have continued through the c...

In his Gospel and first epistle, the apostle John provided an example of how we can invite others into our life-giving fellowship with God through Jesus Christ. Jesus told us to stay in it and compared it to His fellowship with His Father: this included Jesus' doing all that He saw or heard from His Father. In this fellowship, we get to see God's life-giving combination of truth and love in what is sometimes called "friendship evangelism". Peo...

This projected conversation in heaven between Jesus and John the Baptist in 60 AD shows God's calling to Elijah and John. God called them to minister to their nations to bring them to repent and live in God instead of destroying themselves as people and a nation. Today God calls His Church in a land to bring it and its people to repent and live in Jesus instead of destroying themselves.

Many believers in Jesus know about abiding in the Vine in John 15, but few realize the content of His command there: stay in My love. This command seems so easy to obey and fulfill, but examining it closer reveals its key point: our opportunity to live in fellowship with our Father God like Jesus had with Him while on earth. Some believers realize our great opportunity from John 15 or other Scriptures, but I know of no one who realizes that t...

Most believers in Jesus have heard that we should abide in Jesus: to stay in Him, a command in John 15 and 1John. But John's whole Gospel and all of 1John show a meaning of this command that is rarely seen fully in English, and is too rarely put into full practice in our lives. God calls for His children to abide in Jesus, a life and ministry amazingly like what Jesus lived on earth. Staying in Jesus is a vital theme of both John's Gospel and ...

Lost in the translation: truly "believing in Jesus" moves us toward Him. The preposition in John's Scriptures - eis - has a primary meaning of motion toward its object. In this little book we can see every Scripture where the Greek New Testament uses a "believe preposition Jesus" or "believe preposition God". All of these verses together can provide a good Bible study because of their content and this book's fresh perspective, but more valuabl...

In this book we see how Malachi describes the spiritual illness in the U.S. and certain other materially "developed" nations today. The symptoms reveal their obvious cause. Malachi goes further to reveal the often unseen source of the obvious cause. This is like the unseen flu virus or malaria parasite causing an illness, which can be an obvious cause of chills, fever, muscle aches, and more. Malachi establishes all of this for the spiritual i...

Romans 8 in the Bible reveals that God has a plan to transform creation. His plan has been used so little that no locality has received much of the freedom from corruption that He offers. His children in Christ Jesus need to learn how to work with Him, with each other, and with His ways to fulfill His plan. This book shows key features of His plan that can help His children to enter into it with Him.

In Luke 17 the apostles asked Jesus, "Increase our faith." He answered that if they had faith like a mustard seed, then a tree would obey them. This verse is often misunderstood. As this book shows, the Bible's 5 verses about a mustard seed emphasize its growth from a tiny seed into a large plant that provides for others. These verses do not teach that a tiny amount of faith does miracles: they show faith that grows greatly from its seed-like ...