In delivering His children from the fiery furnace of slavery in Egypt, God had very specific objectives to accomplish through the Exodus. The Egyptians served other gods. They did not know or worship Yahweh. The Hebrew people had lived in that environment for 430 years. In their verbal history, they knew of Yahweh, but had…
Posts Categorized: Demonic Encounters
Exodus 7:5,16 – The God of the Hebrews
The peoples of the earth served gods that were not the Lord God, Yahweh, the great I AM. Rather, their allegiance was to the sons of God (bene Elohim) who were over the nations. Following the Tower of Babel incident in Genesis 11, in which man was disobedient to God and did go out into…
Matthew 16:18 – The Gates of Hell
One of the most misunderstood verses in the Bible is Matthew 16:18 where Jesus, speaking to Peter and His disciples, says: “And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Most of us are aware that the Catholic…
Exodus 2:3,10 – What Moses Represents
Certain incidents in the Bible often foreshadow other events yet to come. This idea comprises the concept of typology. Typology is a symbolic representation, usually showing something in the Old Testament in one manner to portray what will happen in the New Testament. An familiar example of typology may be the Exodus of the Hebrew…
Genesis 6:1-5 – Sons of God
Genesis 6:1-5 is one of the most fascinating and troubling passages in the entire Bible. Some people want to make what is conveyed here an entirely human scenario, but that completely misses what’s really going on and the larger Biblical narrative. The text tells us that the sons of God (bene Elohim – Hebrew) took…
Genesis 3 – The Shining Serpent
In the account of the serpent tempting Eve in Genesis 3, we tend to pass over the fact that this appears to be a talking serpent, and that Eve apparently had no issues with this. When was the last time you had a conversation with a snake, whether it was a good or an evil…