by David Keesling | Jul 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Genesis 4:7 “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.” Observation: God here addresses Cain, who had become “very angry” with God because God...
by David Keesling | Jul 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
Genesis 2:3b “on it (the seventh day) He rested from all His work.” Observation: In seven days God had unleashed unimaginable creative powers. Things inanimate that had never before existed (earth and sky, dry land and seas, stars sufficient to fill the eternally...
by David Keesling | Jul 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Genesis 15:6 “Abram believed the Lord, and He credited it to him as righteousness.” Observation: The Lord in verse 1 had come to Abram to assure him that “I…am your very great reward.” Abram’s response was to ask how that was possible since Abram had no heir. When God...
by David Keesling | Jul 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
Genesis 12:1 “The Lord had said to Abram, ‘Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.’” Observation: The family into which Abram was born had already done one leaving. Genesis 11:31 says that Abram’s father Terah...
by David Keesling | Jul 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Genesis 11:2 “they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.” Observation: Thus is introduced the story of the tower of Babel. The previous verse reveals that the whole world had one language and a common speech. This is reasonable, given that the story is set a mere...
