by David Keesling | Jan 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Deuteronomy 2:25 “This very day I will begin to put the terror and fear of you on all the nations under heaven. They will hear reports of you and will tremble and be in anguish because of you” (NIV). Observation: Forty years of desert wandering had come to an end. It...
by David Keesling | Jan 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Mark 5:40 “But they laughed at Him” (NIV). Observation: Jairus, an administrator of the local synagogue, had asked Jesus to lay hands on his dying twelve-year-old daughter. Meanwhile, at the house, mournful wails accompanying death had already begun. Jesus and Jairus...
by David Keesling | Jan 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
Galatians 1:24 “And they praised God because of me” (NIV). Observation: In this opening chapter of Paul’s letter to the Galatians, he said he was “astonished” (Gal. 1: 6) that people he had only recently had a hand in bringing to Christ are so readily abandoning the...
by David Keesling | Jan 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
Deuteronomy 2:5 “Do not provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, not even enough to put your foot on” (NIV). Observation: Israel had begun their desert wanderings under God’s specific direction. In Deuteronomy 2:4, He had said they were about to...
by David Keesling | Dec 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
Deuteronomy 1:31 “There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son” (NIV). Observation: At the edge of the Promised Land, Moses began summarizing the reasons for the Israelites’ long desert exile…until all in the previous generation had...
by David Keesling | Dec 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Deuteronomy 1:3 “Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded concerning them” (NIV). Observation: Forty years of wandering in the desert had ended, and Moses was proclaiming God’s precepts to the Israelites. Key enemies had been defeated, and it...
