Stark Choices

Leviticus 26:3-4, 14, 16 “If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments…then I shall…But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments….I…will…” Observation: We find set forth here the laws concerning obedience, given by God as unalterable...

Shortcomings of Loincloths

Genesis 3:7  “Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.” Observation: Sin had been firmly established through the disobedience of Adam and Eve. Having eaten...

Oil for Food?

Genesis 24:12:“ Then he prayed, ‘O Lord, God of my master Abraham, give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.’” Observation: Sarah had died, and Abraham was nearing the end of his life. The one thing he had yet to do was to secure a wife for his...

Obedience! Obedience! Obedience!

1 Samuel 15:3, 21 “Utterly destroy all…oxen, sheep, camels and donkeys.” . . . ‘But the people took some of the spoil.’” 1 Samuel 16:1 “’How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go!’” Matthew 1:24...

Marching Orders

Exodus 39:43 “And Moses examined all the work and behold, they had done it; just as the Lord had commanded, this they had done. So Moses blessed them.” Observation: Through the eighty-one verses of Exodus 39 and 40 is extraordinary detail as to how the priest’s robes...

Living with Pricks and Thorns

Numbers 33:52-53, 55  “You shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places; and you shall take possession of the land and live in it, for I...