
Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. introduction Baal worship has ruined Judah. Sometime before 648 BCE, Zephaniah writes Jehovah's words meant for his disobedient people: "'I will completely sweep away everything from the surface of the ground, '...

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. Introduction What do we know about "Joel the son of Pethuel"? (Joel 1:1) So little that we can only estimate that he wrote his prophecies in 820 BCE. Why do the scriptures hold back from filling in details about...

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. Introduction "Go, take to yourself a wife of fornication," Jehovah says to Hosea (who in 804 BCE begins his 59-year career as a prophet). He marries Gomer, and they have a son (Jezreel), but her next two children,...

Seven poems in this collection appeared under the covering title of At the Home (published by Poetry Magazine [USA], 2000, and by LukivPress [Canada], 2003). Revised Edition: LukivPress (Canada), 2022. Introduction Written over 3000 years ago,...

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. Introduction Micah's seven chapters cover about 60 years (circa 777 to 717 BCE), foretelling the fall of Samaria, capital of Israel, and Jerusalem, capital of Judah. He says that Jehovah will make "Samaria a heap...