Line Upon Line

Pastor Miles teaches through the three chapters of Zephaniah, the last pre-exilic prophet to Judah, showing how God's call to repentance, the judgment upon Jerusalem and the surrounding nations, and the promised restoration of a remnant all point forward to the great and terrible day of the Lord. He links Zephaniah's imagery to Revelation, Matthew 24, Isaiah 63, and other passages describing Christ's coming as conquering King and Judge.

This teaching walks through the three chapters of Habakkuk, showing how the prophet wrestled with God's plan to judge wicked Judah using the even-more-wicked Babylonians, and how he learned to leave what he could not understand in God's hands by faith. The message draws out a four-step pattern for facing troubling circumstances and concludes with the prophet's bold declaration that "the just shall live by faith," even when everything around him is falling apart.

A verse-by-verse study of Nahum that confronts the often-neglected attributes of God's wrath, jealousy, and justice while holding them together with His love, mercy, and slowness to anger. Nahum's prophecy of doom upon Nineveh—cruel, conceited, idolatrous, and impenitent a century after Jonah—becomes comfort for God's people and a picture of judgment poured out on Christ in our place.

A verse-by-verse walk through the seven chapters of Micah, a contemporary of Isaiah, showing how God brought charges of judgment against both Samaria and Jerusalem for spiritual harlotry, corrupt leaders, false prophets, and hireling priests, yet promised a future restoration through the ruler born in Bethlehem. The teaching repeatedly applies Micah's warnings to America, calling the church to repentance, prayer, and the simple summons to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God.

A verse-by-verse walk through the book of Jonah, showing a disobedient prophet, a sovereign God who arranges storm, fish, gourd, and worm, and the repentance of wicked Nineveh. The teaching contrasts the merciful heart of God with the vengeful heart of man and calls hearers to ask where they stand in the story.

A verse-by-verse study of Obadiah, the shortest book in the Old Testament, focused on God's judgment against Edom (descendants of Esau) for their pride. Pastor Miles treats Edom as a picture of the flesh and shows that lasting deliverance and full possession of our inheritance come only through dying to self at Mount Zion in Christ.

The book of Amos records God's judgment upon the prosperous-yet-wicked northern kingdom of Israel through an unschooled shepherd-prophet whom God called to warn of coming destruction. Amos surveys the surrounding nations, exposes Israel's idolatry and oppression of the poor, recounts the escalating judgments God sent to call them back, and closes with the promise of a remnant and a future restoration of Israel.

Pastor Miles teaches through the three chapters of Joel, showing how the prophet uses a present-day invasion of locusts as a picture of the day of the Lord and a call to whole-hearted repentance. The teaching traces Joel's prophecy from the current judgment, through God's gracious promise of restoration and the outpouring of the Spirit, to the future great and terrible day of the Lord and the salvation still available to all who call upon the Lord.

A verse-by-verse walk through Hosea, showing how God commanded the prophet to marry an unfaithful wife as a living portrait of Israel's spiritual adultery and God's relentless, redeeming love. Through judgment on the northern ten tribes, God reveals His pattern of disciplining His people to purify them and ultimately restore a remnant.

A survey of the book of Daniel showing how the first six chapters establish that God preserves those who walk in righteousness through trial and tribulation, and how chapters 7-12 reveal the succession of Gentile kingdoms and the prophecies of the abomination of desolation, the 70 weeks, and the end of the age. Pastor Miles connects these prophecies to Jesus' words in Matthew 24 and to current events surrounding Israel and the Temple Mount.