God instructs Ezekiel that he is to give Israel specific notice of her sins and their punishment. He does this by acting out the siege and destruction of Jerusalem, lying on his side for 390 days.

Ezekiel was a prophet to Israel at the beginning of the Babylonian exile. In this first chapter, he describes a vision of God's throne.

Paul gives relationship advice to new believers who were once pagans including a discussion of Biblical slavery. What it means to put on the full armor of God.

The Church in Ephesis had grown mature in the Word, but it had fallen short in its love for people.

What it means to hold Messiah in your heart. The second half of the letter beginning in chapter 4 is different in character than the first half. It discusses how to walk according to your high calling and maintain your first love.

Discussion of salvation by faith and how it relates to the works that God created us to do. Also discussion of God's method of dealing with the rebellion in Heaven.

In the letter to the Church at Ephesus in Revelation 2, Yeshua (Jesus) corrects that church for having lost its first love. What was that first love, and how does He suggest that they regain it? How does Paul's letter address the same subject some half a century earlier?

Introduction to the correlation among the seven Kingdom Parables, the seven letters in Revelation and Paul's seven pastoral letters. These three sevens each address the same subject from a different time perspective: pre-crucifixion, post-resurrection and apostolic era.

The heroes of the faith listed in chapter 11 all died without having realized the full promise of God and His covenants. All lived with the faith that those promises would be fulfilled in His time. We also live in a time when here are promises yet to be fulfilled. Encouraged by their example we too must live in faith as they did.

Faith (or its twin fear) is the human faculty that permits humans to operate in the time stream. Since we cannot see into the future, we must imagine the future we want and then exercise faith to bring it about.