Author: Shalem John

Oh h Jezreel, rename your brother and sister. Call your brother Ammi (which means “Now you are mine”); name your sister Ruhamah (“Pitied”), for now God will have mercy upon her! 2 Plead with your mother; for she has become an -other man’s wife-I am no longer her husband. Beg Soon her to stop her harlotry, to quit giving herself to others. 3 If she doesn’t, I will strip her as naked as the day she was born, and cause her to waste away and die of thirst as in a land riddled with famine and drought. 4 And I…

Three passages in the New Testament describes the sealing of believers by the Holy Spirit (2 Cor. 1:22; Eph. 1:13; 4:30). Sealing is a commercial term. Suppose a shipment is accepted and paid fully, then the owner puts a seal on the shipment. This seal guarantees its acceptance when it reaches its destination. In the same manner at salvation, the believer is sealed with the Holy Spirit as a guarantee that God will accept him in eternity because Jesus Christ has paid the price on the cross. 1. The Seal in the Sealing of the Holy Spirit A believer is…

I Mede in the first year of his reign was the one sent to strengthen and help Darius the 2 But now I will show you what the future holds. Three more Persian kings will reign, to be succeeded by a fourth, far richer than the others. Using his wealth for political advantage, he will plan total war against Greece. 3 Then a mighty king will rise in Greece, a king who will rule a vast kingdom and accomplish everything he sets out to do.* 4 But at the zenith of his power, his kingdom will break apart and be…