Jezebel was the queen of King Ahab of Israel. She and Ahab formed perhaps the most wicked royal couple ever to rule over God's people. Their daughter Athaliah married into the house of Judah and bore evil fruit through her influence on her husband Jehoram and her son Ahaziah.

Jesus Christ's genealogy in Matthew's gospel leaves out three kings. But which ones are excluded, and what does their absence teach us?

Tolerating perversion in our midst will attract the wrath of Almighty God. Tolerance of evil out of political correctness is not an option for us.

After several catastrophes, Jehoshaphat finally became convinced that any decision without God in the picture is patently stupid.

Malachi 4:4-6 warns of a a coming Elijah and of a curse if the hearts of the children are not turned back to the fathers and vice versa. Are we seeing this?

Thyatira receives a litany of praise and rebuke from our Savior. He particularly focuses on idolatry, which is spiritual fornication.

Like Elijah, we must feed ourselves on spiritual food, preparing ourselves for something beyond our current abilities, listening for the still small voice.

Pentecostalism, with its sensationalism, is dangerous to a true believer. God is more interested in quietness and meekness than in bombastic displays of power.

Godly men, in scripture, far from the tyrannical dominance decried by feminists, demonstrate love and noble self-sacrifice and the way of outgoing concern.

Though God worked through Elijah in ways that are almost without comparison, God also left a record of a low point in the prophet's life as a lesson for us.

We may have guilty consciences like Joseph's brothers and self-pity like Jacob, but we can break through if we acknowledge God as Jacob and Elisha did.

Those entrusted with power within the community and nations are taking advantage of their positions, metaphorically raping those who have no power.

Elijah fell into a dilemma of either fearing God or fearing man, and ended up fearing Jezebel rather than God, thinking he was alone in his zeal for God.

The Arnoldists, Albigenses, Cathers, Waldensians, and the Lollards all had Sabbath-keepers in their ranks. Gradual syncretism is a pattern of church history.

Pilate realized that people can easily twist truth from half-truths to bald-faced lies. Public media today, shaped by Satan, is no different.