What are you celebrating this Christmas? Is it Advent? Are you celebrating the waiting of what already took place, or are you celebrating the anticipation of what is about to come? A visit to thefreedictionary.com offers various definitions for the term “Advent”: The first three entries in the dictionary are as follows: ad·vent (dvnt) n.Read More…
The story of the giving of Manna in the wilderness. . . The murmurings of the children of Israel continued. When God chose to rescue this people from Egypt, they had become a nation of complainers. Yes we need to cut them some slack, after all, they had suffered through 400 years of enslavement, andRead More…
The story of all stories, the story that to this day is told from one Jewish parent to a son and from that son as a parent to his son, concludes on the other side of the Red Sea. Moses leads out in song first, followed by Myriam and all the women. Moses’ famous verseRead More…
Exodus 12:13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. This verse reminds me of a song weRead More…
Exodus 8:9 And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I intreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river only? I am in the middle of reading through the plagues God sent upon Egypt. Read More…
Exodus 5, Moses has just finished making God frustrated with him and forcing God to add to the one-man show He’d hoped to show His power through. God had precisely told Moses what He was sending him to do and how it would turn out. Exodus 4:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, When thouRead More…
Matthew 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. As long as it was over in Africa, news and headlines surrounding Ebola was geared toward striking fear into the hearts ofRead More…
There used to be a song that included the lyrics, “cast your bread upon the water”. In Exodus Chapter 2, we see a young mother doing the same. Release is a hard thing to do at times. For myself, it can be a very hard thing to do! It never fails, but that at someRead More…
We come to the end of Genesis. We also come to yet another principle that is introduced first here, and then expounded on as the Scriptures continue to be written. I mentioned this briefly a couple chapters ago already. There is the New Testament verse: Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work togetherRead More…
The elder shall serve the younger. In these early pages of Scripture, this appears to be a reoccurring theme. Later in the New Testament, Christ would tell His disciples that to be first in the Kingdom of God, one must be the servant of all. We are told that the first shall be last andRead More…