Category: Notes On The Minor Prophets by H A Ironside
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Haggai, Introduction
By H A Ironside There are six books of the Old Testament which may be read together most profitably. I refer to Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther, of the historical part of the Bible, coupled with the prophetic messages of Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. To these a seventh might be added, viz., the book…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Zephaniah, Chapter 3
By H A Ironside The Remnant And The Lord In The Midst The remark made in the notes on chapter 1, that we have here what answers largely to Philadelphia, is fully sustained in this last section. Here the mass are viewed in utter rejection of the truth, but the remnant…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Zephaniah, Chapter 2
By H A Ironside The Judgments Of The Nations It is a principle over and over again emphasized in the Scriptures that while God will overlook nothing in His people’s ways that merit its rebuke, He will, on the other hand, visit severest judgment on all who lift their hands against…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Zephaniah, Chapter 1
By H A Ironside The Day Of The Lord Of the prophet Zephaniah practically nothing is known beyond what he himself tells us in the first verse. His pedigree is traced back through four generations, and the date of his ministry is given as “in the days of Josiah the son…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Habakkuk, Chapter 3
By H A Ironside The Prayer Of Habakkuk The proper object of divine ministry is to abase the soul in the presence of God, and to draw out the heart to Him in worship and adoration. It was so in the case of Habakkuk. He had been admitted into the secret…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Habakkuk, Chapter 2
By H A Ironside On The Watch-Tower There is nothing harder for man to do than to wait on God. The restlessness and activity of the flesh will not brook delay, but counts time spent in waiting and watching as so much time lost. It is blessedly otherwise with Habakkuk. As…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Habakkuk, Intorduction & Chapter 1
By H A Ironside Introduction One of the shortest books of Scripture—the prophecy of Habakkuk—contains important truth which no reverent student of the Word of God can afford to overlook. Brief as it is, it is directly referred to, or quotations made from it, a number of times in the New…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Nahum, Chapter 3
By H A Ironside Beyond Healing Of Nineveh’s doom we have been reading. The last chapter continues the subject, and tells us that doom is irretrievable. But it does more. Its first four verses give us Jehovah’s terrible indictment, and show us why unsparing judgment had to fall upon it. A…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Nahum, Chapter 2
By H A Ironside The Destruction Of Nineveh It is important, in reading the Prophets, to distinguish between those parts which relate primarily to events long since fulfilled, and those which have to do entirely with what is still future. Fulfilled prophecy is a clinching proof of the divine inspiration of…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Nahum, Chapter 1
By H A Ironside Faith’s Refuge Search and look,” said the prejudiced Jewish doctors, when summarily disposing of the claims of the Lord Jesus, “for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.” We have already seen, in the case of Jonah, that their positive assertion was unsupported by the evidence of Scripture,…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Micah, Chapter 7
By H A Ironside Future Repentance And Blessing This last chapter, which forms the fourth division, is closely allied to the book of the Lamentations. It is the prayer of the repentant remnant in the days of the great tribulation, the time of Jacob’s trouble. That is, the prophet sets forth…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Micah, Chapter 6
By H A Ironside The Lord’s Controversy We now enter upon the third division of the book. It is no longer the future that the prophet is especially looking forward to, either of joy or of sorrow; but he directs the attention of the people to their ways, and presses home upon the…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Micah, Chapter 5
By H A Ironside The Smitten Judge The promises we have been considering are all to be made good by Messiah, of whose rejection at His first coming we are now to read. In the Hebrew arrangement of the text, at the present, the first verse is taken from chapter 5,…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Micah, Chapter 4
By H A Ironside The First Dominion It is refreshing indeed, ere the sad story of failure and sin is resumed, to turn our eyes for a little time to the glad scenes depicted in the first half of this chapter. The three opening verses are an almost exact duplicate of Isaiah…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Micah, Chapter 3
By H A Ironside Princes And Priests Apostate The second division of the book begins with a summons to the heads and princes of Israel to hear the prophet’s rebuke. It is no longer the common people who are addressed, but the princes, or judges, in verses 1 to 4, and…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Micah, Chapter 2
By H A Ironside Is The Spirit Op The Lord Straitened? It is the will of God that those whom He has taken into covenant relationship with Himself should ever be overcomers. If it is otherwise, the fault is in them—not in Him. He has abundant resources for the believer to…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Micah, Chapter 1
By H A Ironside The Summons To Hearken Micah’s prophecy, while simple in structure and clear in the main, yet contains a number of seemingly involved and obscure passages. In taking up its study, one feels more than ever the need of divine illumination to understand aright the dark sayings so…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Jonah, Chapter 4
By H A Ironside The Repentance Of Nineveh The Holy Spirit has declared that “the carnal mind is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” It is a most humiliating truth, but experience and Scripture everywhere corroborate it. It is not that the carnal mind in an…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Jonah, Chapter 3
By H A Ironside Death And Resurrection It is of all importance, in studying the typical characters of the Old Testament, to distinguish between a man in his individual and in his official aspect. In other words, one may be a type of the Lord Jesus, if looked at officially, who,…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Jonah, Chapter 2
By H A Ironside Out Of The Depths When the scribes and the Pharisees hypocritically requested a sign that they might know for certain of the Lord’s Messiahship, He significantly replied: “An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the…
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