It was the wilderness, a desolate wasteland. No one was around except the people of Israel. This is how God chose to anoint the Tabernacle. Moses and the people had built and designed it according to everything the LORD had instructed them. Keep this in mind, Israel was in the wilderness, they we...

The first three days of creation showcase God's perfect handiwork as He carefully and lovingly crafted and prepared the world to be inhabited ( I SAIAH 45:18). Unfortunately, this perfection would soon be lost due to our own bad choices. Worse still, humanity's relationship with God was broken an...

"The first time fear erupted in the mind of man was in the wake of sin. In Hebrew, the word sin is defined as a violation against God, to fail or to miss the mark, which causes separation from Him. Without the knowledge of sin, humanity would not recognize the reason we are separated from God. Th...

The global flood is the greatest disaster that has occurred on planet Earth. Nevertheless, many do not believe in a one-time global flood but only in local floods. Yet, there are over 135 cultures around the world who report stories of a serious flood in their history. Several of the popular scie...

one thing that is very clear as we read the history of Abram, who will eventually be renamed Abraham by God, is that he is being led by God. Genesis 12 explains that it is God who told Abram to move into the land called Canaan. God gave him that land around 2100 BC. To be clear, that was roughly ...

When we believe that God has anointed us for a task, we can get overly excited and make plans. The problem is that many times those plans are our ideas instead of God's direction. That is how Sarai envisioned God's promise to give her and Abram a son in their old age. She became inventive thinkin...

According to the dictionary, the English word covenant means an agreement or promise, usually formal, between two or more people or groups to do or not to do something specified. However, the word covenant in Hebrew, briyth (ber-eeth), means something much more profound, it is an alliance or pled...

The cultures that once flourished in the ancient world were influenced by their ancient past and their understanding of who God was. Even though we do not have the history of every ancient culture, God was still working with humanity. Abimelech was not from the family of Abraham, yet he heard
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Abraham was truly a man who knew the LORD. He had many difficulties and troubles, and his share of sinful tendencies like we all do, but he began to understand who God was and apply how God wants each of us to live. Abraham had a calling on his life as all of us do, and he began to get insight fr...

Jacob was not a nice guy, he was sneaky, he was hard and focused on himself. Many don't like that image of Jacob because they feel like we are speaking badly about God when we confront the facts of Jacob. But the truth is that Jacob needed God to make him ready to come back to his home. The LORD ...

Jacob had made peace with his brother Esau and returned to the land of Canaan. He settled at a place called Shechem, and camped in front of the city. He purchased a section of the field where he had pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor, a prince of the country. one of the sons of Hamor was nam...

People have dreams. We have used the idea of a dream—something we experience when we are asleep—to represent future hopes, achievements, or aspirations. Dreams in this sense are very personal. The definition for the term aspiration is a desire, a longing, or aim, ambition. This is the way we ...

Many have tried to make sense of Joseph's devastating fall into Egypt. To suggest that God was late or impeded in His rescue is a misunderstanding of what God was doing. Remember that Joseph was troubled by pride. This was encouraged by his father who treasured him more than his other sons. Josep...

The dream Joseph had in his youth so many years ago had finally come to fruition. But the dream did not play out at all like Joseph initially thought. In his youth he was arrogant, but God humbled him in order to establish him as the leader he was called to be. I'm sure this was an overwhelming a...

Mt. Horeb is the place where Moses encountered the one true God of heaven and earth, when the LORD called Moses to take the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt. It was Joseph who brought his family into Egypt, and now it is Moses, Joseph's relative, who is called by God to bring them out. A...

Pharaoh was a man of deep pride. He did not think of himself as a man but as a god. After all, he believed that he was the son of Amun-Ra, the ancient Egyptian god associated with the sun and air, who held great power and popularity in Egypt. The extremely bright light was how the Egyptians expla...

Pharaoh was a man of deep pride. He did not think of himself as a man but as a god. After all, he believed that he was the son of Amun-Ra, the ancient Egyptian god associated with the sun and air, who held great power and popularity in Egypt. The extremely bright light was how the Egyptians expla...

God gave the Israelites special seasons and times to serve as reminders of His work on their behalf. The Passover Feast and Festival of Unleavened Bread are just two examples of the LORD's commanding Israel to remember when He brought them out of Egypt and what He did for them. Israel left Egypt ...

Mankind has always been an expert on ways to complain about things that have gone wrong. For example, when we sinned, we did not follow what the LORD had told us and we ended up complaining, even though we were the ones who sinned. We are great at complaining! But the Bible tells us that God hear...

Those who follow Christ are reminded from the Word of God that we are responsible for what we say and what we do. In other words, how we live speaks to everyone around us, it tells them who we serve‚-‚-God or man. Jesus Christ told us to spread the good news of who He is and what He has done for ...

The altar was a place where sacrifices were brought and made to the LORD. As you could imagine, this was a very busy place. Many activities happened here. It is where animals were burned in offering to the LORD God as a show of admiration, honour, and worship to Him. The LORD spoke to Moses and g...

There is no other way to say it than to tell the truth, the ugly truth, that the people of God strayed away from worshipping the LORD and offered their sacred worship to an idol. It was, perhaps, a predictable outcome from the people of the new nation of Israel, since they had spent the last four...

What an amazing miracle that unfolds as we read about Israel and how they developed and built the Tabernacle in the wilderness. We need to keep in mind that the greatest miracle comes when the people are desperate for change. It looked as though the children of Israel would die in the land of Egy...