Category: Notes On The Minor Prophets by H A Ironside
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Jonah, Introduction & Chapter 1
By H A Ironside Introduction Among these so-called Minor Prophets, Jonah is the only one which, in the ordinary sense of the word, does not contain any prophecy at all, except his announcement of the threatened destruction of Nineveh within forty days, which was not fulfilled. Yet the book is distinctly…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Obadiah, The Doom of Edom
By H A Ironside In one chapter God has embodied for us such part of the ministry of Obadiah the prophet as He foresaw would be for our admonition and edification. Brief as it is, its twenty-one verses are fraught with needed instruction, and may well be laid to heart by…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Amos, Chapter 6
By H A Ironside At Ease In Zion! It was not alone the house of Joseph who had provoked the Lord. As before noted, Israel refers throughout, not to the ten tribes only, but to the whole nation. Therefore this division of the prophecy concludes with a stirring word to those…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Amos, Chapter 9
By H A Ironside Not A Grain Lost This final chapter readily divides into two parts. Verses 1 to 10 give the last of the five visions, and Jehovah’s recital of the afflictions awaiting Israel in the lands of their wanderings, but with the assurance that not a grain of His…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Amos, Chapter 8
By H A Ironside A Famine Of The Word The opening verses (1-3) contain the fourth vision, and its application. It will be noticed that, with the exception of the last of these object-lessons, all are of such a character as would readily come before the mind of a young man…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Amos, Chapter 7
By H A Ironside Teaching By Symbols The last division of the book contains a series of five visions, symbolically setting forth divine judgment, and embracing chapters 7 to 9, as noted in the Introduction. In verses 1 to 9 of the present chapter, three of these visions are described; while…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Amos, Chapter 5
By H A Ironside A Lamentation For Israel Sad and solemn are the dirge-like measures of the prophet’s lamentation over the fallen nation that he loved so well. They had utterly broken down as a people in their allegiance and fidelity to God, and on the ground of responsibility could claim…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Amos, Chapter 4
By H A Ironside Yet Have Ye Not Returned! In this chapter they are reminded of the various means whereby God had been speaking, with a view to recalling them to Himself; but the sad result had been that they pursued their ways of sin regardless of warning or punishment. They…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Amos, Chapter 3
By H A Ironside The Chastisement of the Chosen Nation With this chapter the second division of the prophecy begins, going on to the end of chapter 6, embracing the word of the Lord to Israel, a last solemn remonstrance ere carrying out the predicted judgment we have just been noticing.…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Amos, Introduction and Chapter 1 & 2
By H A Ironside Introduction Of Amos, we have much more information than is customary concerning the minor prophets. He gives us, by the inspiration of God, several autobiographical notices of deep interest, which it will be well to look at briefly ere entering upon the study of his messages to…
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Daniel, Introductory Notes by Arno C. Gaebelein
By H A Ironside Revised Edition Introductory Notes by Arno C. Gaebelein Daniel © 1996 by Loizeaux Brothers, Inc.Neptune, New Jersey First Edition, 1911Second Edition, 1920Revised Edition, 1996 Unless otherwise indicated,Scripture quotations are taken from the King James version of the Bible. Introductory Notes are taken from Gaebelein’s Concise Commentary on the…
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Notes On the Minor Prophets, Joel, Chapter 3
By H A Ironside The Valley Of Decision Still having before his soul the events that are to transpire in the day of the Lord, the prophet goes on to set forth more detailed information as to that long-waited-for season of Jehovah’s power. It should not be overlooked that the expression…
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Notes On the Minor Prophets, Joel, Chapter 2
By H A Ironside The Promise Of The Outpouring Of The Spirit As we turn to this second chapter we are ushered at once into the solemn and soul-stirring events of the coming day of the! Lord; a day which will only come when, the Church having been caught up to…
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Notes On the Minor Prophets, Joel, Introduct and Chapter 1
By H A Ironside Introduction Of Joel the son of Pethuel we know nothing, save what little we can glean from the three chapters forming his message to Israel. Jewish tradition places him in the days of Uzziah; but authoritative proof there is none. His name means, Jehovah is God; and…
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Notes On the Minor Prophets, Hosea, Chapter 14
By H A Ironside Restoration And Blessing The same yearning tenderness that led the rejected Messiah to weep over Jerusalem as He said, “If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace!” is manifest throughout this final chapter of our prophet.…
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Notes On the Minor Prophets, Hosea, Chapter 13
By H A Ironside In Me Is Thy Help The opening words, which are really a continuation of the burden begun in the last verse of chapter 11, remind us forcibly of the word of the Lord to Saul when he had turned back from obeying His voice. (See 1 Samuel 15:17.)…
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Notes On the Minor Prophets, Hosea, Chapter 12
By H A Ironside The Balances Of Deceit As already noticed, a new section of the prophecy began with verse 12 of the previous chapter, in which God most searchingly exposes the hidden corruptions of Ephraim, laying bare the moral springs of their being, which resulted in such open revolting from…
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Notes On the Minor Prophets, Hosea, Chapter 11
Bands Of Love “When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called My son out of Egypt.” It is plain, from a consideration of Matthew 2:15, that God had in view His own Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, when the prophet uttered these words. Clearly, and unmistakably, the Holy…
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Notes On the Minor Prophets, Hosea, Chapter 10
By H A Ironside An Empty Vine We have already been reminded of Israel’s early freshness when God found them like grapes in the wilderness. In those happy days of their first deliverance they bore a little fruit for the Lord (oh. 9:10). Now we have to notice His solemn judgment…
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Notes On the Minor Prophets, Hosea, Chapter 9
By H A Ironside The Days Of Visitation Even an utter worldling is relatively happy as compared with a saint of God away in heart from Him whose child he is. This is what the opening verse emphasizes. “Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone…
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