The Genealogy of David
2022-12-18
GENEALOGY WAS important to the Israelites. It was the basis for determining who was eligible to serve in the Temple and who was worthy to sit on the throne.Continue Reading
The Bible’s Greatest Mysteries: Has Sodom Been Found?
2021-11-27
New evidence has been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal that points to a Tunguska-like explosion over the north end of the Dead Sea that destroyed a city fitting the biblical description of Sodom.Continue Reading
Blessing the younger
2020-07-12
JACOB’S STORY comes to a close this week. He lived for seventeen years in Egypt, long enough to see Joseph use the foreknowledge given by God to concentrate power in the hands of the pharaoh (and the same number of years Joseph lived before he was sold into slavery by his brothers).
Jacob, Joseph, and Pharaoh
2020-07-05
JOSEPH FINALLY reveals himself to his brothers, unable to continue his deception any longer. His brothers had returned to Egypt to buy more grain, bringing Joseph’s only full brother, Benjamin, with them as he’d ordered.
Cult prostitution in the Bible
2020-06-14
IF THE Bible had truly been edited to make the apostles, prophets, and patriarchs look better, chapter 38 of Genesis would have disappeared long ago.
Joseph and his brothers
2020-06-07
JOSEPH APPEARS to have been something of a spoiled brat. Either he had no self-awareness at all or his self-image was so inflated that he didn’t care what his brothers thought of him.
Weep for Jerusalem
2018-02-18
THERE ARE times when God brings correction into our lives, although not always as drastically as He did to the kingdom of Judah in 586 B.C.Continue Reading
Destruction of the Temple
2018-01-14
THE LAST king of Judah, Zedekiah, was obviously more afraid of his countrymen than he was of Nebuchadnezzar — or God, for that matter.Continue Reading
War in heaven!
2017-07-16
HISTORY, PROPHECY, and a glimpse of a future war in heaven — what more could we pack into this week’s Bible study?Continue Reading
Husband of a faithless wife
2017-06-11
GOD INSPIRED the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel to use the image of Israel as an unfaithful wife. He called Hosea to take it a step farther, directing the prophet to actually <em>marry</em> an adulterous woman to serve as an image of Israel’s unfaithfulness to God.Continue Reading