How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Welcome to Through the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee.

We're in the book of Zachariah, an Old Testament prophet who had a vision of Jesus' second coming.

What exactly did Zachariah see?

Well, find out in chapter 14.

As we get settled on the Bible bus, here's the latest in our introductions from Dr. McGee on the attributes of God.

And God doesn't have a feeling of guilt because he sent the flood and destroyed all of mankind

with exception of Noah.

God makes no apology for judging man, and he certainly hasn't asked me to do it for him.

And we are told when Moses crossed the Red Sea

with the children of Israel after the Egyptians were destroyed, and God did that. He sang,

Jehovah's a man of war. God hates sin, and God loves the good. He never makes light of sin, and we should not shut our eyes to it,

knowing the terror of the Lord, we persuade men, Paul says. And it said when Justin the postet was

dying, that he reached his finger and that wound in his side and flung his blood

in the air, and he says, thou hast won, O Galilean. Yes, he had one. God does punish sin,

and he says, he that being often reproved, hardeneth his heart, shall suddenly be

destroyed, and that without remedy. Proverbs 291. God, our God, is a God who punishes sin.

Well, God's judgment is sobering, but it's not the end of the story.

And the same God who punishes sin also offers forgiveness and new life through Jesus Christ.

And we get evidence of God's grace at work in the lives of our fellow listeners all the time.

In fact, Greg and I want to share some recent letters that we've received.

Greg, what do you got?

...