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A promise made is a promise kept.  God assures the first generation of Israelites His blessing for their obedience after liberating them from Egyptian captivity,  “If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them . . . I will set My tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you. I will walk among you and be your God and you shall be My people” (Leviticus 26:3,11).  God keeps His promise as He tabernacles (mobile Tent of Meeting)... Read More

Back in the day when virginity was a virtue women who had sex outside of marriage were considered harlots; and no woman wanted to be called “a harlot”. Sadly, harlotry has been sanitized of its negativity and exalted as acceptable and the norm in our day.   When God calls Abraham and his descendants into covenant with Him, He shares with them His Name, His land, and obligates Himself to them as their protector and redeemer. Abraham’s descendants spend 400 years in... Read More

Israel had been warned. For years, decades, and centuries. Moses, in his blessings and cursing message in Deuteronomy 28, promised blessings to those who obeyed the LORD, and warned of the consequences of continued disobedience. Those consequences increased with intensity over time until God finally raised up captors who removed His people from the land of promise and took them into captivity. Before that captivity, God raised up numerous prophets throughout Israel and Judah’s... Read More

What God does for Joseph He does for all those whom He grafts into His Story. Paul describes the value of looking back—looking back at God’s method of operation in the past—and the value it brings in producing hope in the present, “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope” (Romans 15:4).  Psalm 105, 106, and 107 are historical psalms—they chronicle... Read More

Seven hundred years earlier in the  Exodus Era , God had assigned each tribe its camping space around the Tabernacle—Judah to the east, closest to the Tabernacle entrance, with other tribes arranged in armies, clockwise in order (Num. 2). None of the tribes lived in direct contact with the Tabernacle, however; God reserved that honor for the Levites. The sub-tribe of Gershon camped to the west (3:23), behind the Tabernacle; Kohath to the south (3:29); Merari to the north (3:35); and... Read More

Revival broke out at the beginning of Hezekiah’s reign. He sought the LORD with all his heart, followed in the footsteps of his “father” David, and restored both the Temple and the worship of the LORD which his predecessor Ahaz had neglected. He so prioritized God’s worship over all the other affairs of his reign that he began on the first day of the first month of the first year of his reign to cleanse and restore the house of the LORD (2 Chron. 29:3, 17). When the... Read More

A principle surfaces throughout the Bible’s story: God uses what He hates to accomplish the good that He loves. Evil doesn't originate with God, but He uses the existing evil for His own purposes. When God’s people walk with Him by faith, He generally hedges them about with His hedge of protection (Job 1:10; Dt. 28:7). Often that hedge is simply the restraining of evil nations and rulers around His people. When He does lift the hedge, He shows His power to deliver them. Prior to... Read More