Weekly Scripture 3-29-2026

Answer:

This comes from John, but what chapter and verse?

__:__He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

*You and I as Christians can learn a lot from this verse. Don't you think it should be the case that we should be satisfied with being a voice, because certainly the message that we have to give about Jesus is much greater than the individual that gives the message. That Christian voice should always declare the glories of Christ. “Make straight the way of the Lord”, in other words John was telling them to get ready for the coming Lord, and that the kingdom of heaven is at hand. It was at hand in the person of the King “Christ Jesus”! I think he was also telling the people of that day to get the crooked things out of their lives and deal with the things that are wrong. We need to do that as Christians and as a country today, because when we do that, there is opened up fellowship with God. “If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:” (1 John1:6).

Weekly Scripture 3-22-2026

Answer: 2 Kings 3:7

This comes from 2 Kings.

__:__And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.

*In an earlier incident with king Ahab, Jehoshaphat was going to help him and he requested that Ahab inquire of the Lord about going to war against Ramoth-gilead. Ahab had some false prophets come out and they all told them to go, but Jehoshaphat could see through the fake prophets and requested a prophet of the Lord be asked. Although in this first incident with Ahab, Jehoshaphat chose to help anyway after the sound advice from the prophet of God and it had consequences and almost got Jehoshaphat killed. One has to wish that Jehoshaphat would have thought to have inquired of the Lord before he said he would help Ahab's son in the incident above, who had taken over the kingship of Israel. But, he waited until they got lost in the wilderness of Edom getting ready to attack Moab. In the incident though you can see that Jehoshaphat was regarded by the Lord in verse 14 in this chapter and basically, if he had not been with them the Lord would not have even looked toward them. There is something about people wanting to help their kindred out and Israel had been split at this time and was in 2 kingdoms, and so the natural reaction I suppose was for Jehoshaphat to want to help. But, helping someone without consulting God about it first can lead to consequences. I am sure that everyone has had someone close or a relative that has got into trouble and sometimes depending on the circumstances and most importantly what God tells us to do, it is better to let the other person face the consequence of their actions rather than bail a person out continually that gets into trouble. Alliances with people that are against God and His plan is never a good idea in any case.