Author: Shalem John

PART-1 ere is the Lord’s message to Israel, given through H the prophet Malachi: 2, 3 ” I have loved you very deeply,” says the Lord. But you retort, “Really? When was this?” And the Lord replies, “I showed My love for you by loving your father, Jacob, I didn’t need to. I even rejected his very own brother, Esau, and destroyed Esau’s mountains and inheritance, to give it to the jackals of the desert. 4 And if his descendants should say, ‘We will re-build the ruins,’ then the Lord of Hosts will say, ‘Try to if you like, but…

In February 2009, 22-year-old Kenneth Echiche and a friend were picking cashew fruit from a tree near their small village of Ukwortung in Cross River State, Nigeria. As his friend used a stick to shake the yellow fruit from the tree, one slipped through Echiche’s outstretched hands. He’s still not sure how it happened, but he remembers the caustic juice squirted into his eye, causing a burning sensation. “I did nothing about it because I felt it was something minor,” Echiche said.Three months later, his vision blurred. Unable to afford a hospital visit, his parents tried herbal remedies such as…

This is the fate of Israel, as pronounced by the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundation of the earth, and formed the spirit of man within him: 2 “I will make Jerusalem and Judah like a cup of poison to all the nearby nations that send their armies to surround Jerusalem. 3 Jerusalem will be a heavy stone burdening the world. And though all the nations of the earth unite in an attempt to move her, they will all be crushed. 4 In that day,” says the Lord, “I will bewilder the armies drawn up against…