Precipice of Decision

Acts 24:25: “When I find it convenient, I will send for you.” Observation:  Paul had been arrested and sent to the provincial capital of Caesarea to defend himself against false charges of initiating a temple riot. The high priest and his lawyer came to testify...

A Useful Test

Leviticus 26:5, 10: “Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will be eating all the food you want. . . .  You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you have to move it out to make room...

How Could God Have Gotten It So Wrong?

Leviticus 25:23: “The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants” (NIV). Observation: God here reiterated His ownership of everything. Knowing that a Year of Jubilee would occur on a fixed, fifty-year schedule...

Clarion Call for Involvement

Deuteronomy 22:1, 3: “You shall not see your countryman’s ox or his sheep straying away, and pay no attention to them; you shall certainly bring them back to your countryman. . . . Thus you shall do with his donkey, and you shall do the same with his garment, and you...

No Longer Spectators

Leviticus 23:1: “The LORD said to Moses, ‘Speak to the Israelites and say to them: “These are my appointed feasts, the appointed feasts of the LORD, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.”’” Observation: All of Leviticus 23 is given to a description of the...