Entries by David Guzik

The Start of Christmas

Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; My ears You have opened; burnt offering and sin offering You did not require.  Then I said, “Behold, I come; in the scroll of the Book it is written of Me.  I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within My heart.” (Psalm […]

A King and Priest

And when the king came back from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king approached the altar and made offerings on it. So he burned his burnt offering and his grain offering; and he poured his drink offering and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the altar. (2 Kings 16:12-13) King […]

Gottes Altar ablehnen

Da zog der König Ahas Tiglat-Pileser, dem König von Assyrien, entgegen nach Damaskus. Und als er den Altar sah, der in Damaskus war, da sandte der König Ahas dem Priester Urija ein Abbild des Altars, und zwar eine genaue Vorlage, wie er gemacht war. Und der Priester Urija ließ den Altar genau nach dem bauen, […]

Rejecting God’s Altar

Now King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the design of the altar and its pattern, according to all its workmanship. Then Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had […]