Paul loved his brothers, his fellow Jews, but he knew a sad fact about them. God had called the Apostle Paul to evangelize the Gentiles with the Good News of Jesus Christ. Once God had made it clear to him that He loved the whole world and that Gentiles were every bit as worthy of…
Posts Tagged: Israelites
Nehemiah 9:26 – Nevertheless
It’s astounding what God puts up with concerning this rebellious creation of His called mankind. If He wasn’t long-suffering beyond what you and I can imagine, He would have decided the human experiment had long-past reached its expiration date. Nevertheless (the word that also happens to highlight the title of this essay today), God somehow…
Judges 6:31 – Contending for Baal
Why is it that those who follow other gods feel they have to protect their god; that he cannot do the work of protecting himself? I’m thinking specifically of Islam right now with the followers of Allah, but this certainly applies to every other god. All of them apparently need their followers to act in…
Luke 1:45 – She Who Believed
There are some number of us who lament the fact that few in the church today take an interest in Bible prophecy. We see that as a lack of teaching and preaching from the pulpit, and the subsequent disinterest in the congregation because they’re not inspired to search deeper into the Word of God in…
Deuteronomy 9:3 – A Consuming Fire
God created us with an ego, but that sure can get out of hand! The Oxford English dictionary says about ego that it’s “a person’s sense of self-esteem or self-importance.” Certainly the self-esteem part of the definition is critical simply so we can function on a daily basis. We have to feel a sense of…
Numbers 33:55 – Trouble in the Land
Because of what the Israelites had learned in Egypt over their 400 years of captivity, Yahweh had a deconditioning project to accomplish with them. They had been in the midst of a pantheon of pagan gods and gotten used to deities whose image they could see. The verbal history of their people had probably taken…