“At Gibeon the Lord Appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask! What shall I give you?”…And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.” I Kings 3:5, 10 We know the story: Solomon is told by God that he could ask for anything that he wanted. Solomon [...]
“Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ Jesus answered, ‘Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed.’” John 9:1-3 The question [...]
“…the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing…” Ezra 1:1b According to the beginning of the book of Ezra, this takes place in the very first year that Cyrus became king. This
“For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the [...]
“Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Consider your ways!’…Thus says the Lord of hosts: ’Consider your ways!’” Haggai 1:5, 7 Both of these verses are basically identical. Both of these verses are calling the people to look at what they had been doing and what they should be doing.