The pale, light-eyed Jesus many people inherited is not an eyewitness portrait and does not come from Scripture. Follow the image from Roman art to European empire, then compare it with the Bible’s repeated clues about Israelites and Jesus.

This is official Covenant Servants doctrine. Scripture teaches a fixed earth, a real firmament, waters above the heavens, luminaries placed in the firmament, and the throne of God above it all. We reject the distant god of the oppressor and stand on the local, living God who sits above the circle of the earth and sees His people.

1. Stop and Think When Solomon prayed, he saw us. He said, If they bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent. Bethink means stop, think, and return. It is more than remembering, it is repenting, confessing, and realigning your heart with the God of Israel. We forgot who we were because this world trained us to forget. Now God is calling His people, not everybody, His people, to bethink themselves. Daily Devotion 2. Our Captivity Was Prophes